Anthropology is the study of people and their culture . Archaeologists study the people of the past through their artifacts, which are any objects made by a human. Dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. The first evidence of a human-type species is only about 4 million years old. Measuring tape, trowel, bucket, screens, compass, flagging tape, string, gridmaps, pencils.
Archaeologists study historic cultures as well as prehistoric.
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