bradenleigh2007 bradenleigh2007 08-09-2018 History contestada Which statement about an archaeologist is true? It is a scientist who studies materials from the past to learn about ancient peoples. It is a miner who digs below the earth's surface to uncover gold from ancient cultures. It is a scientist who studies maps to learn what continents explorers reached in the past. It is a historian who reads old documents to learn how people used to write.