Quiz Mark 9- Anthropology & Archaeology - Archaeology And World Prehistory

The Potassium/Argon (K/Ar or radiopotassium) method is used

Identify recent fossil hominin finds, making reference to why they are significant.

The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal laws, and the systemic view of culture is:

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How does American colonial Georgian material culture not differ from the material culture of the colonial medieval mindset that preceded it?

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a. Whereas medieval houses had only one or two rooms, Georgian houses were functionally structured and compartmentalized.
b. Food preparation shifted from chopping bones to sawing them, as evidenced by the shift from bones with articulated joints to more difficult to identify segmented cuts; ceramics also shifted from plain, utilitarian earthenware to more technologically advanced matched sets with serving vessels.
c. Whereas trash was simply tossed out of doors and windows during medieval days, it was disposed of in deep pits during Georgian times.
d. Both reflected the culture of the time.
e. Ceramics of the medieval mindset were characterized by utilitarian earthenware; Georgian ceramics were purchased in matching sets of plates and teacups.

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The absence of animal bones at Kalambo Falls indicates that meat eating did not take place at the site.

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Ninety-nine percent of all known Upper Paleolithic cave art sites are

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What was revolutionary about Nelson's 1914 excavation methodology at San Cristobal Pueblo in Mexico?

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Artifacts are

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Conservation and cataloging of artifacts after excavation is very time consuming. As a rule of thumb, archaeologists spend three to five weeks or more cleaning, conserving, and cataloging for every week spent excavating

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The age of the earth is approximately

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The footprints at Lætoli indicate that

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The study of human behavior through material remains, for which written history in some way affects its interpretation, is

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The occurrence of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe is marked by the appearance of

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Why do archaeologists use a datum point rather than simply measuring from the ground surface?

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a. The datum point provides a universal reference point that can be used across any archaeological site, allowing archaeologists to easily compare data between excavations.
b. While vertical provenience could easily be measured from the ground surface, obtaining accurate horizontal provenience would be much more difficult without a datum point.
c. The ground surface does not have the same elevation consistently across a site, while a datum point provides a fixed reference.
d. Use of a datum point is an archaeological tradition established in the early 20th century; while it serves no useful purpose, it is an example of how outdated excavation methodology is still embedded in archaeology today.
e. Archaeologists like to use moveable reference points.

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To archaeologists, the importance of duck decoys of Lovelock Cave, Nevada is

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Which of these civilizations is NOT known for its lavish funerary rituals?

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Please write 2-3 sentences identifying the person, place, or thing in terms of age, location, and significance.Teosinte

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The president was given the authority to create national monuments under which of the following?

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Electron spin resonance is a trapped charge dating method primarily used to date

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Domestication in the Americas

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In faunal analysis, what does NISP stand for?

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The process of flotation is based on the principle that

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Which of the following would you NOT expect to find in a Mesolithic site in southern Scandinavia?

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Western introductions into ancient China included

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Some might suggest that the Vietnam War and civil rights movement created an "angry young man" out of Lewis Binford

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Large earthen mounds were not erected at

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Jericho is

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Horizontal lines near the near the ends of long bones that indicate episodes of physiological stress are known as

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Mesopotamian temples were generally associated with

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Which of the following statements is true of the current state of Americanist archaeology?

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a. The "New Archaeology" of the 1960s has for the most part been uncritically accepted by nearly all Americanist archaeologists, and currently dominates archaeological thought.
b. Americanist archaeology is today very diverse, representing many different theoretical perspectives; there is no single, defining, dominating trend.
c. Whatever public interest and involvement that archaeology once experienced has dramatically diminished; archaeology as a discipline is at the risk of extinction.
d. Archaeology today, as it was throughout the entire history of Americanist archaeology, is heavily dominated by white males, with virtually no involvement by woman and other minorities.
e. A single defining trend dominates archaeology today.

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Natural disturbance processes are the only processes that affect the formation of archaeological sites

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The primary method for reconstructing male and female activities from the archaeological record comes from

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Please write 2-3 sentences identifying the person, place, or thing in terms of age, location, and significance.Kiva

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The Inca road system did all of the following except

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In a kinship chart, which symbol does the textbook use to symbolize women?

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Neanderthals had a larger average brain size than modern humans.

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Please write 2-3 sentences identifying the person, place, or thing in terms of age, location, and significance.Bone chemistry

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Please write 2-3 sentences identifying the person, place, or thing in terms of age, location, and significance.Dolni Vestonice

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A functional type is a morphological type that has specific chronological meaning for a particular region

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The archaeological paradigm that takes an ideational rather than an adaptive view of culture is termed:

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The common set of symbols found in the Midwestern United States between 2200 BP and 1600 BP is referred to as

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The recovered remains of enslaved Africans recovered in New York City showed evidence of physical demands on their physical labor, as well as signs of disease, which contrasted dramatically with their lives in Africa

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Describe the disciplines of archaeozoology and paleoethnobotany.

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Permanent settlements of the large, hunter-gatherer community at Ozette were possible because residents:

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If a bioarchaeologist is looking at the fusion of epiphyses on a human skeleton, he or she is most likely trying to determine

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