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ANT2100 Exam with correct AnswersMany disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology
unique from other disciplines that study humans?
A. anthropology argues that the best understanding of the human condition comes from
a global, comparative and holistic perspective
B. anthropology examines only one aspect of the human condition, but does so in great
detail
C. anthropology examines the social and cultural aspects of humanity, but leaves the
biological aspect of humans to other disciplines
D. anthropology focuses only on exotic people and cultures, while other disciplines are
more apt to study in American or European society - Answers -A. anthropology argues
that the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global, comparative,
and the holistic perspective
A specialist from which of the four sub-fields of anthropology would be most likely to
study ritual and kinship among people in contemporary societies?
A. archaeology
B. cultural anthropology
C. linguistic anthropology
D. biological anthropology
E. bioarchaeology - Answers -B. cultural anthropology
Archaeology can be be defined as?
A. the study of humans in all times and places
B. the study of biological aspect of humans
C. the study of the past through the systematic recovery and analysis of material
remains
D. the study of past and present human cultures through written records and oral history
,E. the study of ancient physical remains - Answers -C. the study of the past through the
systematic recovery and analysis of material remains
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an examples of?
A. how the social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories
B. the infallibility of science
C. how more civilized cultures (the Moundbuilders) can be destroyed by less civilized
cultures (the Native Americans)
D. how pseudoarchaeology can be useful to professional archaeologists
E. how to provide ourselves with an innate sense of superiority and right to dispossess
Native Americans today - Answers -A. how the social, cultural, and political context of
archaeology can influence its theories
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by?
A. supporting Squier's and Davis's conclusions
B. scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans
had indeed built the mounds
C. demonstrating once and for all through the testing of multiple hypotheses that the
Native Americans had not built the mounds
D. collecting empirical data to test the idea that Moundbuilders were a lost race
E. practicing in the Indian Wars - Answers -B. scientifically evaluating previous claims
and concluding that the Native Americans had indeed built the mounds
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?
A. believing that a superior race had built the mounds fir nicely into the social and
political context of the times, helping to justify colonialism
B. archaeological and historical evidence to suggest that Native Americans had built the
mounds was completely lacking
C. It was a conscious effort on the part of racist archaeologists to steal Native American
land; everyone really knew that the Native Americans had built the mounds
, D. westward expansion had not yet begun; European colonists were therefore
unfamiliar with how similar the mounds really were to the mounds actively being
constructed by living Native Americans
E. no one really accepted the explanation, but it was part of the history books - Answers
-A. believing that a superior race built the mounds fit nicely into the social and political
context of the times, helping to justify colonialism
Low level theories are?
A. hypotheses that link archaeological observations with the human behavior or natural
processes that produced them
B. theories that seek to answer large "why" questions
C. the observations and interpretations that emerge from hands-on archaeological field
and lab work
D. easily falsified
E. the most difficult to test - Answers -C. 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?
A. why are all of these artifacts clustered around this hearth, or fire pit
B. why do we believe that this stone tool was used to process plant material rather than
to butcher an animal
C. why did some societies evolve stratified social and political systems whereas others
remained egalitarian
D. how many artifacts are clustered around this hearth or fire pit
E. how was this stone tool used to process plant material, not butcher an animal -
Answers -C. 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?
True
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