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ANT 2100 EXAM QUESTIONS AND REVISED ANSWERS 100% CORRECT 2024/2025 LATEST UPDATE ALREADY PASSED While the vertical excavation strategy at Gatecliff was designed to clarify chronology, the horizontal excavation was designed to? A. expose living floors B. reinforce the artifact typologies i...

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ANT 2100 EXAM QUESTIONS AND REVISED
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT 2024/2025 LATEST
UPDATE ALREADY PASSED

While the vertical excavation strategy at Gatecliff was designed to clarify chronology,
the horizontal excavation was designed to?

A. expose living floors

B. reinforce the artifact typologies in use at the time

C. clarify the site's stratigraphy

D. establish the chronology on a larger scale

E. identify the geological composition of the stratigraphy - Answer ✔ A. expose living
floors

If an archaeologist is excavating in arbitrary levels?

A. he or she is following the natural breaks in the sediment (following the stratigraphy)

B. natural strata are probably lacking or difficult to recognize

C. the natural strata may be less than 10 centimeters thick

D. they are mindlessly shoving dirt into buckets to speed the task along

E. they are excavating in vertical, not horizontal units - Answer ✔ B. natural strata are
probably lacking or difficult to recognize

The size of the screen mesh used to shift for archaeological remains is important
because?

A. it affects what artifacts are recovered

B. larger mesh is used to recover small bones, especially from fish

C. it does not affect the speed of recovery

,D. the price increases with the size of the screen mesh

E. the larger mesh is heavier and more difficult to operate - Answer ✔ A. it affects what
artifacts are recovered

Water-screening is an especially useful technique when?

A. the deposits are coarse-grained and have a low clay content

B. artifacts are expected to be large and not easily broken, as water screening can be
destructive

C. artifacts are expected to be small and/or difficult to find without washing

D. tiny fragments of carbonized plant remains must be recovered

E. the deposits are mostly natural rock - Answer ✔ C. artifacts are expected to be small
and/or difficult to find without washing

You have decided to excavate the site to Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico. It covers
some 20 square kilometers and at one time housed up to 100,000 people. You have an
unlimited budget. As a professional archaeologist, you elect to?

A. excavate the entire site so as to be able to reconstruct, as much as possible, what
individuals were doing as this site in the past

B. map the site first, then stratify the sample universe (the site) based on the
architecture recorded by the mapping project, and excavate a random sample of the
buildings in each of these, leaving a large portion of the site for future archaeologists

C. excavate just the areas around the large temples to reconstruct the lives of the elites

D. ignore the temples and elite residences and focus a random sample procedure on
the houses that architecturally appear to be those of commoners

E. excavate the entire site, but leave some excavated artifact - Answer ✔ B. map the
site first, then stratify the sample universe (the site) based on the architecture recorded
by the mapping project, and excavate a random sample of the buildings in each of
these, leaving a large portion of the site for future archaeologists

Assigning the artifacts catalog numbers and carefully cataloging all the finds from each
site is important to archaeologists because?

A. it makes them easier to market and sell

, B. the Smithsonian Institution recommends the practice

C. the artifact's original provenience and context will not be lost

D. it is relatively easy and not time consuming; it helps to focus distracted lab workers

E. it is federal law - Answer ✔ C. the artifact's original provenience and context will not
be lost

The use of flotation devices is employed to find items such as charred seeds at
archaeological sites?

True

False - Answer ✔ True

Why was John Smith in shackles and imprisoned during his voyage with the Virginia
Company in the New World?

A. fomenting mutiny

B. killing a crew member

C. steering the company off course

D. earning more than his share of rations - Answer ✔ A. fomenting mutiny

Who are better prepared for establishing a colony?

A. commoners

B. gentlemen

C. spaniards

D. pirates - Answer ✔ A. commoners

How many artifacts have archaeologists unearthed at the Jamestown site over the past
12 years?

A. close to one million

B. several thousand

C. dozens

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