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ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Artifact - Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans Classical Archaeology - The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and t...

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ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 Exam
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Artifact - ✔✔Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans


Classical Archaeology - ✔✔The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilizations of the

Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.


Anitquarian - ✔✔People who were fascinated by ancient objects but who rarely used those objects to

reconstruct the past


Antiquarians - ✔✔Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the earliest ____________


Middens - ✔✔Trash heaps people created generally consisting of sediment; food remains such as charred

seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts


Middens - ✔✔Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae discovered what was seemingly shell piles on the Danish

shores were actually _____________.


Potsherd - ✔✔Fragment of pottery


Alfred Vincent Kidder - ✔✔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 - ✔✔First archaeologist to excavate village sites in Egypt, showed there was

more to learning about the past than the 'huge monuments.'




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, Stratigraphy - ✔✔A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural

sediments into layers.


Culture History - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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.


Lewis R. Binford - ✔✔Archaeology's "angry young man," argued, archaeology must transcend potsherds

and spear points to address larger issues, such as cultural evolution, ecology, and social organization -

became known as "new archaeology"


New Archaeology - ✔✔An approach to archaeology that arose in the 1960s, emphasizing the

understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method; today's version of

this is sometimes called processual archaeology.


People typically use their vision of the past to justify their actions in the present. - ✔✔Why is the study of

the past controversial?


Studying the past depends on recognizing a past. - ✔✔How was the rise of archaeology connected to the

discovery of humanity's "deep" antiquity?


Thinking from things - ✔✔What makes an archaeologist an archaeologist?


Anthropology - ✔✔The study of all aspects of humankind— biological, cultural, and linguistic; extant

and extinct—employing a holistic, comparative approach and the concept of culture.


Participant Observation - ✔✔Gathering data by personally questioning and observing people while

actually living in their society.




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