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ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 Exam Questions and Answers
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ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 ExamQuestions and Answers
Artifact - Answers -Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured
by humans
Classical Archaeology - Answers -The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical"
civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
Anitquarian - Answers -People who were fascinated by ancient objects but who rarely
used those objects to reconstruct the past
Antiquarians - Answers -Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the earliest
____________
Middens - Answers -Trash heaps people created generally consisting of sediment; food
remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
Middens - Answers -Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae discovered what was seemingly
shell piles on the Danish shores were actually _____________.
Potsherd - Answers -Fragment of pottery
Alfred Vincent Kidder - Answers -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 - Answers -First archaeologist to excavate village sites in
Egypt, showed there was more to learning about the past than the 'huge monuments.'
Stratigraphy - Answers -A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of
geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.
Culture History - Answers -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 - Answers -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.
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