What do archaeologists study?

Question

A. Archaeologists study artifacts people leave behind.
B. Archaeologists study anything over 100 years old.
C. All of the above
D. Archaeologists study groups of humans in both the present and the past

Answer 1

A - human artifacts

B & C are wrong because they will study stuff 50 years old, there's nothing that says only 100 years old. That makes B a bit arbitrary, it's not any sort of definition. example: Some Archaeologists study world war 1 & 2 battle sites - only 90 years and 60 years old.

Answer 2

1) C is the correct answer.

2) majority of archaeologists study the remote past (hundreds or thousands of years back in time), increasing numbers are turning to more recent historical periods and even quite modern phenomena.

Excavation in Progress Archaeological excavation is today a painstaking and exact process. Even the smallest finds are capable of giving valuable clues about various aspects of life in the past.The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty/Chris King

The fundamental challenge of the archaeologist is to make meaningful sense of the past from what little has survived; in the great majority of sites, only a minute fraction of what originally existed has survived, the size of that fraction depending on the ravages of climate, the kind of soil in which objects were deposited, how quickly they became buried, and whether they underwent any disturbance before or after burial.

Answer 3

C. All of the above. My favorite is "midden" !