Archaeology

Paleoanthropologist:  An anthropologist who studies human evolution from fossil remains.

Artifact: Any object fashioned or altered by humans.

Fossil: the preserved remains of plants and animals that lived in the past.

Unaltered fossil: Remains of plants and animals that lived in the past that have not been altered in any significant way.

Altered fossil: Remains of plants and animals that lived in the past that have been altered, as by the replacement of organic material by calcium carbonate or silica.

Site: In archaeology, a place containing remains of previous human occupants.

Soil marks: Stains that show up on the surface of recently plowed fields that reveal an archaeological site.

Provenience the three-dimensional location of an artifact or feature within an archaeological site, measured by two horizontal dimensions, and a vertical elevation. Provenance The ORIGINAL location or origin of an artifact or fossil. Where it is from…

Context - the relationship of artifacts and other cultural remains to each other and the situation in which they are found.

Grid system: A system of recording data from an archaeological excavation.

Datum point: Starting, or reference point for a grid system.