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ANT 2100 MIDTERM – FSU QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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ANT 2100 MIDTERM – FSU QUESTIONS & ANSWERSWhat is "In a Grove" about? - Answers-7 characters tell an officer about a dead samurai
they found near by a woodcutter in Kyoto. The person who we assume killed this man is
Tajomaru.
What are the subfields of anthropology? - Answers-1. Linguistic
2. Archaeology
3. Cultural
4. Biological
What are the goals of archaeology? - Answers-- When/Where/How did humans live in
the past?
- Why did changes take place in past human societies?
- Why are some sites/artifacts preserved and not others?
- Preserve the past for the future.
Classical Archaeology - Answers-The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical"
civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
Prehistoric archaeology - Answers-typically cultures that did not have written records.
- New World - before arrival of Europeans
- Old World - Bronze age
Historic Archaeology - Answers-study of cultures that have written history. Known as the
"contact period archaeology".
- In some places the period when Europeans were arriving and interacting with native
people
- time of European contact until Revolutionary War
Moundville - Answers-Extensive archaeological investigation has shown that the site
was the political and ceremonial center of a regionally organized Mississippian culture
chiefdom polity
- it is the 2nd largest site of the classic Middle Mississippian era
What is archaeology? - Answers-- a subfield under anthropology
- Mindset and set of technologies and methodologies
- Study of humans and their material traces
Jamestown (starving time) - Answers-The first Early English Colony in (1609 - 1676)
- Encountered Wampanoag Indians
- English concept of "Noble Savage"
, - Starvation, Environmental decimation
- Poor colonial execution - did they want to settle?
Cultural (def) - Answers-Integrated system of beliefs, traditions, and customs that
govern or influence a person's behavior.
- Culture is: learned, shared by a members of a group, and symbolic
- Apache ex: preferred one large living/cooking area
Anthropologists study cultures in what 2 ways? - Answers-1. Ideational perspective
2. Adaptive perspective
Ideational perspective - Answers-Focus on ideas, symbols, and mental structures as
driving forces in shaping human behavior.
Adaptive perspective - Answers-Isolates technology, ecology, demography, and
economics as the key factors defining human behavior.
Processual paradigm - Answers-The paradigm that explains social, economic, and
cultural change as primarily the result of adaptation to material conditions.
External conditions (for example, the environment) are assumed to take causal priority
over ideational factors in explaining change.
Postprocessual paradigm - Answers-Focuses on humanistic approaches and rejects
scientific objectivity;
- more concerned with interpreting the past than testing hypotheses.
Provenience - Answers-where an object comes from at a site
- the most important thing about an artifact is it's provenience
Provenance - Answers-the history of ownership - the source of its origin
Channel Flake - Answers-A thin, sharp sliver of stone removed from a core during the
knapping process.
Factors determining preservation - Answers-The exact procedures in any excavation
depend on several factors - kind of materials that have survived the passage of time.
Datum - Answers-also known as "Zero point"
- a fixed reference used to keep control on an excavation; controls both the vertical and
horizontal dimensions of provenience.
Levels - Answers-the individual conditions or values that make up a factor
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