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ASB 222 Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers In an ideal world archeology... - answerreflects the past perfectly Pompeii - answer-Ash fell up to 6 inches an hour and made buildings collapse; Covered buildings and people acting as a mold, ultimately preserving the forms of the perished people. ...

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ASB 222 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
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In an ideal world archeology... - answer✔✔reflects the past perfectly

Pompeii - answer✔✔-Ash fell up to 6 inches an hour and made buildings collapse; Covered
buildings and people acting as a mold, ultimately preserving the forms of the perished people.
- Pyroclastic surge: pieces of volcanic debris that rolled down the mountain at extremely high
speeds; what really killed people
○ Erupted August 25th

Archeological Record - answer✔✔study of past behavior and formation processes (how
archeological records are formed)

Dynamic and Archeological Context - answer✔✔- Dynamic: actively being used in time period
- Archeological: things we are looking at now from the past

Formation Processes - answer✔✔- When dynamic context switches to archeological context
- Transform the material remnants of past behavior
- They can:
- Modify objects
- Move objects around
- Dissociate objects that were used together
- Can create spurious association between unrelated objects
Decrease/increase quantities of objects

Depositional Processes - answer✔✔Transforms material remnants from dynamic to
archeological context

, THEBRIGHT EXAM SOLUTIONS 8/20/2024 8:37 PM


Cultural Disturbance processes - answer✔✔Change the materials within the archeological record
itself
- EX: looting

Preservation Processes - answer✔✔Affect the survival of material remains in archeological
context

Natural Disturbance Processes - answer✔✔Change the materials within the archeological record
itself

Archeological Data - answer✔✔- Minimal:
- Artifacts: are cultural, moveable objects
- Ecofacts: plant or animal remains
- Features: are non-portable object modified; in whole or in part; by human activity
- Composite:
- Burial: are features that contain human (or animal) remains. Sometimes associated with
artifacts
- Sites: are places where artifacts, ecofacts, or features have been found

Thomas Jefferson - answer✔✔○ brought American archeology into more of a profession
○ Conducted the first archeological expedition
○ Grave Creek Mound, West Virginia = in his backyard; decided to build a trench across it;
found that the mounds were actually burials from NA tribes

Paleontologists - answer✔✔○ study dinosaurs not archeologists
○ Is the study of past life, and uses its source info from fossil records

Archeology - answer✔✔○ is the study of the human past through the study of material culture
○ Starts 2.6 million years ago when materials start to appear (archeological record)
○ Both history and science
§ History tends to focus on a particular part of the past
Science tends to focus on the regularities across a class of events

History - answer✔✔○ is the study of the human past using written records (books, maps, etc.)
○ Starts close to present, about 5.4 thousand years ago

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