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National Archaeology Week Quiz

Quiz 1 - Australian Archaeology | Quiz 2 - Meet the Archaeologists | Quiz 3 - Spoil Heap

Quiz One – Australian Archaeology
This section is about archaeology in general and some of the work done by Australian archaeologists. Here are references that will help you to find the answers you don’t already know.


People often think that archaeologists study dinosaurs (which is simply not true). Which one of the following actually involves the study of dinosaurs?
entymology
herpetology
palaeontology
palynology

A team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists recently discovered a new species of dwarf-sized hominid on the Island of Flores. Nicknamed the 'Hobbit', what is the hominid's scientific name?
Homo hobbitus
Homo floresiensis
Homo indonesius
Australopithecus indonesius

What ship carrying the Bounty mutineers was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef off North Queensland, en route to England, in 1871?
Endeavour
Titanic
Pandora
Mary Rose

Which archaeological site underlies Suncorp Stadium (the old Lang Park football ground) in Brisbane?
an historical cemetery
an Aboriginal shell midden
the foundations of Brisbane's first railway station
the tomb of an Aztec King

Diprotodon is an example of the extinct megafauna of Australia. Diprotodon was:
a carnivorous kangaroo
a giant emu
a rhinoceros-sized wombat-like creature
the basis for the Dreaming stories of the Rainbow Serpent

Lake Mungo in NSW has:
the world’s oldest cremation site
an extensive Aboriginal burial ground threatened by flooding
a sanctuary for water birds
evidence of eel traps used by Aboriginal Australians

Much older than any Egyptian tomb is Ngarrabullgan in North Queensland, the oldest known occupation site in Queensland. Radiocarbon evidence tells us the area has been occupied for:
more than 37,000 years
about 10,000 years
15,500 years
22,240 years

University of Western Australia staff and students have worked on sites in the Abrolhos Islands related to the 1628/9 wreck of the Dutch ship:
Duyfken
Batavia
Nederlander II
Abel Tasman

Excavations undertaken at St Mary’s churchyard on the outskirts of Adelaide revealed that one of the early settlers buried there probably suffered from:
TB
Hodgkin’s Disease
Leprosy
Pneumonic plague

Two caves in the Nullarbor Plain have evidence of Aboriginal occupation dating back more than 34,000 years. The caves are:
Devil’s Lair and Mushroom Rock Shelter
Nanwoon Cave and Bone Cave
Kenniff Cave and Madura Cave
Koonalda Cave and Allen’s Cave

Evidence for occupation at Warreen Cave in Tasmania goes back:
12,000 years
almost 35,000 years
19,780 years
16,500 years

Excavations in The Rocks area of Sydney have revealed a tremendous amount of information about life in the early days of the colony, and have also produced a tremendous number of artefacts:
more than 1 million
500,475 at last count
almost 600,000
approximately 480,000

A distinctive and beautiful type of artefact is produced in northern Western Australia. It is a
Broome Head
Kimberley Point
Kununurra Point
Hamersley Arrow

Tasmanian Tigers (Thylacines) used to be found on the Australian mainland, but disappeared about 3000 years ago. A possible cause for this disappearance is thought to be:
the introduction of the dingo about 4,000 – 4,500 years ago
the end of the last Ice Age
no more megafauna for them to prey on
climate change
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