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Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes
anthropology unique from other disciplines that study humans? ANS✔✔
Anthropology argues that the best understanding of the human condition
comes from a global, comparative, and holistic perspective.
A specialist from which of the four subfields of anthropology would be most
likely to study ritual and kinship among people in contemporary societies?
ANS✔✔ Cultural anthropology
Archaeology can best be defined as: ANS✔✔ The study of the past through
the systematic recovery and analysis of material remains.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of: ANS✔✔ How the social,
cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories.
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by:
ANS✔✔ Scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the
Native Americans had indeed built the mound
Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept
the fact that Native Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the
Ohio and Mississippi River valleys? ANS✔✔ Believing that a superior race had
built the mounds fit nicely into the social and political context of the times,
helping to justify colonialism.
, Low-level theories are: ANS✔✔ The observations and interpretations that
emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab work.
An example of a high-level theory would be a theory that seeks to answer
which of the following questions? ANS✔✔ Why did some societies evolve
stratified social and political systems whereas others remained egalitarian?
An ecofact is a plant or animal remain found at an archaeological site, to
include bones, charcoal, and pollen. ANS✔✔ True
The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal
laws, and the systemic view of culture is: ANS✔✔ Postprocessual
archaeology.
Which of the following was not a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'?
ANS✔✔ travels of Giovanni Battista Belzoni throughout England and Ireland
and his knowledge of hydraulics
Charles Lyell's 1865 book The Geologic Evidences for the Antiquity of Man
was important because it: ANS✔✔ Documented the fact that humans had
lived with now-extinct animals in the distant past.
The year AD 1859 was an important year in the history of human thought
because it was the year that: ANS✔✔ Charles Darwin published On the Origin
of Species.
A "midden" is: ANS✔✔ a refuse deposit resulting from human activities
"Stratigraphy" is: ANS✔✔ A site's physical structure produced by the
deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.
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