ASB 222
Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts - Answer- true
the goals of archaeology include - Answer- A. Discovering evidence of the human past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
C. Reconstructing past lives and societies
ALL OF THE AB...
ASB 222
Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts -
Answer- true
the goals of archaeology include - Answer- A. Discovering evidence of the human
past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
C. Reconstructing past lives and societies
ALL OF THE ABOVE !!
Archaeology applies scientific methods and theories to the material remains of past
cultures to understand human behavior. - Answer- true
Which of the following places the four types of human societies in order from
smallest in size and least complex, to largest in size and most complex. - Answer-
Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, States
Radiocarbon dating can date things that lived up to 500,000 years ago - Answer-
false
An objects provenience is its location in horizontal and vertical space - Answer- true
Excavation reveals - Answer- A. The three dimensional patterning of the site
B. The temporal and spatial relationship among artifacts in three dimensional space
A and B only
Archaeology is a historical science - Answer- true
Which of the following is NOT a goal of archaeology - Answer- got this wrong
NOT-RECONSTRUCTING HUMAN CULTURAL HISTORY
Archaeologists that live in other cultures to learn about how artifacts are made and
used are called - Answer- Ethnoarchaeologists
You are an archaeologists excavating a site and you find an artifact of a type you've
never seen before. Which method would NOT help you figure out what the artifact
was used for in the past? - Answer- Survey
The second human diaspora, when humans colonized much of the planet including
Australia, and the Americas occurred when? - Answer- 10-50 kya
The development of complex language helps separate modern humans from our
earlier ancestors - Answer- True
What tool tradition, featuring standardized bifaces, was produced by Homo erectus?
- Answer- Acheulean
, Two major hypotheses explaining the origins of modern humans are - Answer- The
multiregional model vs the out-of-Africa model
The hominis that exited Africa during the first out of Africa migrations were
anatomically modern humans - Answer- False
How did humans disrupt ecological balance through globalization? - Answer- A.
Hunting
B. Competition
C. Fire
ANSWER D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
Human evolution is not a straight line but rather has many evolutionary dead ends
and branches - Answer- True
Of the following what were the two main challenges people had to overcome in
colonizing the Americas? - Answer- Living in subarctic environments and traveling
from Alaska to the rest of the American continents
Biologically modern humans - Answer- 200 kya??? -
Hopewell earthworks include - Answer- A. Geometric shapes
B. Causeways
C. Forts
ANSWER- D. ALL THE ABOVE
Agriculture has changed the environment by causing - Answer- A. Deforestation
B. Erosion
C. Loss of species diversity
ANSWER- D- ALL OF THE ABOVE
The beginning of the Neolithic coincides with the end of the Younger Dryas, which
was a short period of - Answer- Cooling
Domestication and agriculture are two terms that refer to the same process but for
different types of organisms. Domestication refers only to fauna and agriculture only
to flora. - Answer- False
A palynologist would interpret a decrease in tree pollen and an increase in grass
pollen after the introduction of farming to an area as - Answer- evidence for
deforestation
Sedentism of formerly mobile groups is associated with - Answer- epidemics and
problems with waste disposal
The earliest ceramics in the world are found in - Answer- Asia
How would a archaeologist determine weather a pot was made using local or non-
local materials? - Answer- By analysis of Clay and Inclusions
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