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ANT 2100 test 2 with complete solutionsarchaeological culture - Answers -subdivisions of culture areas, also called traditions,
NOT ethnographic cultures
Archaic - Answers -ancient; old-fashioned
assemblage - Answers -collections of artifacts recovered from some unit of provenience
attribute - Answers -a characteristic that distinguishes one artifact from another based
on size, surface texture, form, material, method of manufacture, and design pattern
cataloging - Answers -begin with the classification of artifacts in to types, or typology
component - Answers -considered a cultural homogenous units within a single site
conservation - Answers -Protecting and preserving natural resources and the
environment
culture area - Answers -drawing lines around areas one a map and labeling draws
attention to spatial differences in the kinds of artifacts that are found in those regions
functional type - Answers -a class of artifacts that performed the same function these
may or may not be temporal and or morphological types
Historic - Answers -important in history
Lithics - Answers -the technical name for tools made from stone
Mississippian - Answers -A Native Indian culture that flourished in the modern day
midwest. They resided in the Mississippi river valley
morphology - Answers -study of form
Morphological type - Answers -a descriptive and abstract grouping of individual artifacts
whose focus is on overall similarity rather than function or chronological significance
paleoindian - Answers -the earliest inhabitants of North America
period - Answers -a length of time distinguished by particular items of material culture
such as house form, pottery, or substinence
, phase - Answers -An archaeological construct possessing traits sufficiently
characteristic to distinguish it from other units similarly conceived; spatially limited to
roughly a locality or region and chronologically limited to the briefest interval of time
possible.
temporal type - Answers -A morphological type that has temporal significance; also
known as a time-marker or index fossil.
type - Answers -a class of archaeological artifacts defined by a consistent clustering of
attributes
Typology - Answers -the systematic arrangement of material culture into types
what is space time systematics? - Answers -is the delineation of patterns in material
culture through time across space. Archaeologists are concerned with space-time
systematics because it forms the basic framework of whatwas done or made, where
and when.
Archaeological sites consist of ________, collections of artifacts recovered from some
unit of provenience, that are then clustered into _______. - Answers -assemblages;
components
Cataloging is essential, because: - Answers -without the catalog, provenience is lost.
can a typology be of two different types? - Answers -yes
Paleoindian Period - Answers -25kya - 8,000 BC first occupation to domestication and
pottery
archaic period - Answers -~8,000 - ~1,000 B.C. Pottery changes, Early, Middle, Late
woodland period - Answers -~1,000 B.C. - A.D. 1,000
Farming develops, pottery
mississippian period - Answers -A.D. 1,000 - ~1500 Chiefdoms, population changes,
agriculture
historic period - Answers -european contact
Clovis and Folsom points - Answers -Paleo-Indian Sites
Discover material remains with extinct animals. 1940s they began to find materials
below the F strata, C points were found with mammoth remains.
Different styles of projectile points; chronological styles
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