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Which of the following is true of archaeological types? - Answer- archaeological types are abstractions; the same object could be classified in many different ways
you are excavating a site in the great basic and you find a stratum th...
ANT 2100 Quizzes with Complete
Solutions 2024/2025 Update
Which of the following is true of archaeological types? - Answer- archaeological types
are abstractions; the same object could be classified in many different ways
you are excavating a site in the great basic and you find a stratum that contains only
Elko points. this indicates to you that the stratum dates to a particular period. the Elko
point, in this example, can be referred to as a - Answer- temporal type
The "Frison Effect" explains the change in the shape of stone tools as a result of -
Answer- tool reshaping
archaeologists divide prehistory into periods based on - Answer- changes in observable
material culture, such as house form, pottery, or subsistence
which of the following is true of the space-time systematics of north american
archaeology? - Answer- space-time systematics has been largely worked out, and no
longer preoccupies archaeology as it did in the first half of the 20th century
as a coail science, archaeology's major strength is - Answer- its access to tremendous
quantities of time and space
when classifying artifacts, types are abstractions imposed by archaeologists because -
Answer- there is nothing inherent in an artifact that makes it belong to one and only one
type
a crucial characteristic of a good typology is that it must be - Answer- objective and
explicit
______ types are morphological types that have specific chronological meaning for a
particular region, while _____ types reflect how objects were used in the past - Answer-
temporal; functional
in geology, the principle of uniformitarianism asserts - Answer- that the processes now
operating to modify the earth's surface are the same as those of the geologic past
, analogies justified on the basis of close cultural continuity between the archaeological
and ethnographic cases or similarity in general cultural form as known as - Answer-
relational analogies
analogies justified by similarities in the formal attributes of archaeological and
ethnographic objects and features are known as - Answer- formal analogies
the goal of middle-level theory is to - Answer- help build secure inferences from
archaeological remains
taphonomy is useful to archaeology because it - Answer- helps archaeologists separate
the effects of natural processes and human behavior on site formation
exploring the possible ways to make a projectile point is an example of ______, while
observing the way a living group of people make projectile points is an example of
_________ - Answer- experimental archaeology; ethnoarchaeology
trying to move stones weighing several tons using only the tools and materials that the
ancient Egyptians had available to them, with the goal of determining whether or not
Egyptian technology was sufficiently sophisticated to produce monuments like the
pyramids, is an example of - Answer- experimental archaeology
the primary objective of ethnoarchaeology is to - Answer- relate behavior to
archaeologically observed phenomena
regarding trash disposal, Kelly's research among the Mikea of Madagascar revealed -
Answer- that people deposited their trash further from their homes the longer the
settlement was occupied
Archaeology is: - Answer- The study of the past through the systematic recovery and
analysis of material remains.
Archaeology can be a controversial field in challenging long-held beliefs about science,
history, and humanity. - Answer- True
Alfred V. Kidder - Answer- father of Anthropological Archaeology
Lewis Binford - Answer- responsible for the rise of processualism
Gertrude Caton-Thompson - Answer- the first to look beyond mortuary features and
start excavating settlements in Egypt
Margaret Mead - Answer- one of the first anthropologists in the United States and
dedicated to public anthropology
An archaeological approach starting in the 1960s focusing on applying the scientific
method to archaeological processes. - Answer- Processualism
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