Иностранный язык. Мартемьянова Н.В - 33 стр.

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A. Neither idea is very close to the truth. Archaeology is the scientific study of the material
remains of past human life and activities. These materials include relics, artifacts,
monuments, etc.
B. But how do archaeologists manage to find out something about the earliest inhabitants
who lived before a word of their history was written?
A. It is owing to the fact that an archaeologist deals with all the material remains of man: the
objects he used and made, his dwelling places, his tools and weapons, his own bones and
burial places with buried treasure.
B. I see. So the main thing for an archaeologist is the romance of treasure hunt, isn't it?
A. On the contrary, most archaeologists are not working with the expectation of finding a
king's tomb or similar riches. They are aiming at throwing light on some portion of man's
past by the careful piecing together of evidence, much of it apparently insignificant in itself.

Vocabulary:
to include - включать (в себя)
find out - обнаружить, узнать
owing to the fact - благодаря тому, что
expectation – ожидание
 to aim at - нацеливать, направлять
to throw light on - проливать свет на что -либо
 apparently - очевидно
 insignificant - незначительный
Archaeological terms:
archaeology
archaeologic(al)
archaeologist
pursuit - занятие
to bury - хоронить, прятать
burial - захоронение
burial hill (mound) - могильный холм
burial place - место погребения
buried - захороненный, спрятанный
treasure - сокровище, клад
remains - останки, остатки
relics - останки, остатки
artifact - остатки материальной культуры древнего человека
tomb - могила, надгробный памятник
evidence - зд. археологические свидетельства, находки

III Read the second part of the dialogue and answer the questions.
Part II
B. Can you explain why the archaeologists carry on their excavations?
A. To begin with, archaeology is not an end in itself, not just an abstract study. It is the
method of finding out about the past of the human race in its material aspects, and the study
of the products of this past. These aspects may be the way people lived, the way they
worshipped, the way they built, their art, their trade, their travels.
B. But all these aspects are studied by historians as well, aren't they?
A. Certainly, but historians are concerned primarily with written records, and the earliest
systems of writing were only invented some five thousand years ago, whereas man's ape-like
ancestors appeared on earth about half-a-million years ago. The past does not vanish without