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ANT2100 Midterm – Mehta Exam Questions and Answers
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ANT2100 Midterm – Mehta ExamQuestions and Answers
Myth of mound builders - Answers -ask; Cyrus Thomas disproved it. This view of history
gave colonists the sense of innate superiority and the rights to avenge the mound
builders by disposing Native Americans of their land.
GPR - Answers -ground-penetrating radar; a geophysical method that uses radar pulses
to image underground surface ACTIVE
Resistivity - Answers -sends electric current between two poles ACTIVE
Magnetic gradiometer - Answers -PASSIVE
magnetic sciscobility - Answers -PASSIVE
OSL - Answers -measures (with light) amount of radiation stored in sand grains and
releases it (absolute dating)
Thermo - Answers -uses heat to release radiation (absolute dating)
Formal analogy - Answers -comparing something you've seen to what you're looking at
(kivas)
Relational analogy - Answers -a historical/cultural link (comparing a century old keba to
modern day kebas used)
systematic context - Answers -a living behavioral system in which artifacts are part of an
ongoing system of manufacture, use, reuse, and discard
Archaeological context - Answers -Once artifacts enter the ground, they are part of the
archaeological context, where they can continue to be affected by human action, but
where they also are affected by natural processes.
formation processes - Answers -the ways in which human behaviors and natural actions
operate to produce the archaeological record
Reclamation processes - Answers -Human behaviors that result in artifacts moving from
the archaeological context back to the systemic context, for example, scavenging
beams from an abandoned structure to use them in a new one.
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