ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 Exam Questions With Certified Answers
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Artifact - Answer-Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans
/.Classical Archaeology - Answer-The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Gre...
ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 Exam
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Artifact - Answer-Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by
humans
/.Classical Archaeology - Answer-The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical"
civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
/.Anitquarian - Answer-People who were fascinated by ancient objects but who rarely
used those objects to reconstruct the past
/.Antiquarians - Answer-Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the earliest
____________
/.Middens - Answer-Trash heaps people created generally consisting of sediment; food
remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
/.Middens - Answer-Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae discovered what was seemingly
shell piles on the Danish shores were actually _____________.
/.Potsherd - Answer-Fragment of pottery
/.Alfred Vincent Kidder - Answer-The founder of Anthropological archaeology, followed
and separated particular strata, distinctive layers of earth, to construct a cultural
chronology, used intensive artifact analysis
/.Gertrude Caton-Thompson - Answer-First archaeologist to excavate village sites in
Egypt, showed there was more to learning about the past than the 'huge monuments.'
/.Stratigraphy - Answer-A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of
geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.
/.Culture History - Answer-The kind of archaeology practiced mainly in the early to mid-
twentieth century that documented how material culture changed over time and space.
/.H. Marie Wormington - Answer-Her book Ancient Man demonstrated the shift from a
concern with things to a concern with thinking from things; first female president of the
Society for American Archaeology.
/.Lewis R. Binford - Answer-Archaeology's "angry young man," argued, archaeology
must transcend potsherds and spear points to address larger issues, such as cultural
evolution, ecology, and social organization - became known as "new archaeology"
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