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The Scientists and Their Science 1

ow do we know what ordinary people did hundreds and thou- sands of ago? Not just kings, queens, or explorers, but people like us? How do we know what they ate, what they wore, what their homes looked like, and how they decorated them? No one from those days is around to tell us, and even written records go back only so far. So we have to figure out the answers from objects that are left behind. The objects are clues, and the people who piece together the clues are like detectives. They’re called archaeologists.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND innovative  groundbreaking, original

minors  additional large fields of study for under- graduate college students, but that do not lead to a degree in that field paleontologists  scientists who look for, and study, ancient fossils of animals and plants

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