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Archaeology ANT 2100 Exam Questionsand Answers
The world's oldest fully preserved human body was found in what year? - Answers -
1991
Where was the Iceman found? - Answers -South Tyrol, Italy
The Ice man was the first prehistoric human found with his every day clothes on. True
or False - Answers -True, all previous bodies had been found carefully buried or
sacrificed
The Iceman is also called: - Answers -Similaun Man
What techniques have been used to study the Iceman? - Answers -X-rays, scans, radio
carbon dating
What date do they believe the Iceman is from: - Answers -3300 BC
How do they think the Iceman was preserved? - Answers -He was on the mountain,
probably got tired, and maybe caught in a blizzard. After he died, his body thawed out in
the fall, and then became encased in ice in the winter. Because he was sort of in a hole,
the body was protected from the glaciers that moved 5000 years later. Finally, a storm
from the sahara desert put a layer of dust on the ice, the dust absorbed the sunlight and
melted the ice.
What did ice man look like? skin color, age, height and weight? Hair? - Answers -Dark
skinned, late 40's, 5'2" and 120 pounds. Brown hair, possibly a beard, ornamental stone
in his ear lobe
Why were his teeth worn down? - Answers -Either from eating certain kind of foods or
because he may have used his teeth like a tool.
Did the Iceman have wisdom teeth? - Answers -no
Since the 1950's frozen bodies have been found in the Andes mountains in South
America. They are called: - Answers -mummies
The Incas lived in the Andes mountains. They built ceremony centers on the mountain
to worship the mountains. They worshipped the mountains because they believed the
mountains provided the water for their fields and the fields support the crops and the
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