Archaeology is a source of history, not just a humble
auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical (47)
in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts. Just as
much (48) any other historian, an archaeologist
studies and tries to (49) the process that has created the
human world to which we live—and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures
of our age and (50) environment. Archaeological data are all
changes in the material world (51) from human action or, more
succinctly, the fossilized results of human behavior. The sum
total of these constitutes (52) may be called the
archaeological record. This record exhibits certain (53) and
deficiencies the consequences of which produce a rather superficial
(54) between archaeological history and the more familiar kind
based (55) written records. Not all human
behavior fossilizes. The words I utter and you hear as vibrations in the air are
of great importance, (56) they leave no sort of trace in the
archaeological records unless recorded.
A) social
I) like
B) as
J) contrast
C) what
K) destroy
D) upon
L) similarity
E) document
M) reconstitute
F) yet
N)
resulting G)
and
O) commonalities
H) relic