ANT 2100 Final Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
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ANT 2100 Final Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
The introduction of ____ dramatically increased the amount of cutting edges that could be obtained from the raw material - Answer- Blade technology
A flake can be removed through percussion using - Answer- a piece of bone
an antler
a ha...
ANT 2100 Final Exam Questions
and Answers All Correct
The introduction of ____ dramatically increased the amount of cutting edges that could
be obtained from the raw material - Answer- Blade technology
A flake can be removed through percussion using - Answer- a piece of bone
an antler
a hammerstone
Some archaeologists use ____ analysis to determine how to determine how stone tools
were used - Answer- Microwear
Before humans started using metal tools, most tools with cutting edges were made of
stone. - Answer- True
A flake can be removed from the parent stone by a blow or pressure - Answer- True
Flintknapping is an additive process. - Answer- False
The French word debitage is used to describe waste material - Answer- True
Archaeologists can determine the sequence of removals and flaking from refitted
assemblages - Answer- True
Many stone tools were probably used in a range of activities. - Answer- True
The earliest ceramic containers, or pottery, _______ - Answer- appeared around 18,000
years ago in China
Tempers used in archaeological ceramics include ________. - Answer- Volcanic ash,
grog, and bone
Methods of decorating pottery include _____. - Answer- burnishing, cord marking,
impressing the pottery with shells
When sorting ceramic sherds, archaeologists _______. - Answer- Distinguish between
rim sherds and body sherds
Attributes of pottery styles - Answer- include design elements and decoration
, To identify where a ceramic was made, an archaeologist could - Answer- identify the
kind of temper, examine the vessel shape and design motifs, and use ceramic
petrography
Complete ceramic vessels are rare in the archaeological record. - Answer- True
To make pottery, people usually collect clays from at least 100 kilometers from their
residences - Answer- False
The first ceramic vessels were wheel-thrown - Answer- False
Tempers are often added to clay to prevent cracking during drying and firing. - Answer-
True
The wild ancestor of corn or maize was - Answer- Teosinte
Plants can reveal the _______ of site use. - Answer- Seasonality
Common food sources in the Early Neolithic Near East did NOT include - Answer-
Maize
Microbotanical remains important in archaeology include _____. - Answer- Phytoliths,
pollen, and diatoms
Diatoms are particularly useful for ______. - Answer- reconstructing past environmental
conditions
Plant remains are usually some of the first things to decompose at an archaeological
site. - Answer- True
Macrobotanical analyses focus on phytoliths and pollen. - Answer- False
Compared to seed crops, it is usually much more difficult to identify root crops in the
archaeological record. - Answer- True
One indicator of domestication is increased seed size. - Answer- True
One major change in domesticated plants is the human removal of plants from their
natural habitat to new environmental zones - Answer- True
A large number of large animals went extinct in North America around _______. -
Answer- 10,000 years ago
Identifying the age and sex composition of animals in an assemblage ______. - Answer-
Can provide direct evidence of domestication
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