Match the vocabulary term with its meaning :
1. archaeology
2. anthropology
3. linguistics
4. cuneiform
5. hieroglyphs
6. petroglyphs

symbols used to represent sounds

the study of the lives of early human communities through the examination of the remains

pictures carved out of stone

symbols used to represent objects

the study of people

the study of human language

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.

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