ASB 222 FINAL EXAM||100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)
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ASB 222 FINAL EXAM||100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)ASB 222 FINAL EXAM||100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)ASB 222 FINAL EXAM||100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)
artifacts - ANSWER-anything used, made/ modified by humans
Site (Behavioral) - ANSWER-a place where human activity once too...
ASB 222 FINAL EXAM||100 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)
artifacts - ANSWER-anything used, made/ modified by humans
Site (Behavioral) - ANSWER-a place where human activity once took place
site (Archaeological) - ANSWER-a cluster of artifacts
archaeology - ANSWER-study of past human societies through their material remain
cultural items - ANSWER-Physical/material objects that have meaning, value, or use
features - ANSWER-a collection of one or more contexts representing some human
non-portable activity
ecofacts - ANSWER-the natural remains of plants and animals found in the
archaeological record
human remains - ANSWER-body of a deceased person, including cremated remains
goals of archaeology - ANSWER-1) Discover evidence of the human past
2) Reconstruct cultural history around the world
3)Reconstruct past lives and societies
4) Explain changes in past societies
half-life - ANSWER-length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample
to decay
diffusion - ANSWER-the spread of ideas from one culture to another
independent invention - ANSWER-The term for a trait with many cultural hearths that
developed independent of each other
analogy - ANSWER-A similarity or comparison between two different things or the
relationship between them.
cultural evolution - ANSWER-major changes in human societies over time; no progress
band - ANSWER-hunters and gathers
tribe - ANSWER-a social group made up of families or clans
, chiefdom - ANSWER-Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who
held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and
empires, they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
state - ANSWER-a nation or territory considered as an organized political community
under one government.
hypothesis - ANSWER-An educated guess
survey - ANSWER-initial data gathering stage; has a specific research Q & statistical
sampling period
excavation - ANSWER-the process of digging up the remains of the past
absolute dating - ANSWER-A technique used to determine the actual age of a fossil
relative dating - ANSWER-Method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its
placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock
radiocarbon dating - ANSWER-a chemical analysis used to determine the age of
organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14
Thermoluminescence (TL) - ANSWER-Technique for dating certain archaeological
materials that were heated in the past (such as stone tools) and that release stored
energy of radioactive decay as light upon reheating.
dating organic materials - ANSWER-radiocarbon dating
dating inorganic materials - ANSWER-Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or
radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or
carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they
were formed.
seriation - ANSWER-the ability to order items along a quantitative dimension, such as
length or weight
battleship curve - ANSWER-Shape on a seriation graph formed by plotted points
representing, for instance, the rise in popularity of an artefact, its period of maximum
popularity, and its eventual decline.
stratigraphy - ANSWER-the study of rock layers and the sequence of events they reflect
law of superposition - ANSWER-The geologic principle that states that in horizontal
layers of sedimentary rock, each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than
the layer below it.
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