Question

Match the vocabulary term with its meaning :

Answer 1

The correct matches are:

1. archaeology - the study of early human communities through the examination of the remains;

Examining the past of the human kind, its development, reasons for it, artifacts, activities...

2. anthropology - the study of people;

It is focused only on the human kind, and every aspect of the human nature.

3. linguistics - the study of human language;

Traces the origins of languages, branches them out, groups them, and tries to understand their evolution and connections.

4. cuneiform - symbols used to represent sounds;

Primitive style of writing, or proto-writing, by which people managed to record things by writing them down, mostly used in the Middle East.

5. hieroglyphs - symbols used to represent objects;

Colorful drawn pictures that resemble an object in real life, used as a writing system in Ancient Egypt.

6. petroglyphs - pictures carved out of stone;

Carvings out of stone with the purpose of documenting events that happened.

Answer 2

Linguistics: the study of human language
Cuneiform:symbols used to represent objects
Anthropology:the study of people
Petroglyphs:pictures carved out of stone
Archaeology:the study of the lives of early human communities through the examination of the remains
Hieroglyphs:symbols used to represent sounds