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ANT2100 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass What do anthropologists study? - Human Kind The ability to accurately cross date tree rings within a limited region is based on the fact that patterns in ring width is associated with - seasonal variation effecting all trees in a given area The fiel...

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What do anthropologists study? - ✔✔Human Kind


The ability to accurately cross date tree rings within a limited region is based on the fact that patterns in

ring width is associated with - ✔✔seasonal variation effecting all trees in a given area


The field of anthropology strives to be a holistic discipline in that: - ✔✔All aspects of humanity are

considered and studied


The Moundbuilders myth provides an example of - ✔✔How the social, cultural and political beliefs can

influence archaeological theories


An artifacts provenience is - ✔✔The artifacts location relative to a system of spatial data collection

(longitude and latitude)


The goal of ground reconnaissance survey is to - ✔✔Find every site in the region


The difference between scientific accuracy and precision is that accuracy measures the distance from a

variable to a true value, while precision measures the repeatability of a test to show the same result.

When archaeologists use 2 standard deviations instead of 1: - ✔✔accuracy increases while precision

decreases


Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are - ✔✔Computer programs designed to store, retrieve,analyze

and display cartographic data




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, Genetically, modern humans today are extremely homogeneous. This is likely due to an evolutionary

bottleneck that occurred - ✔✔200,000 years ago in Africa


Historically, the Speculative Approach to archaeology focused on: - ✔✔Collecting ancient relics for

personal collections and display


What principles from Charles Darwin's 1859 publication of "On the Origin of Species" challenged long

held scientific beliefs? - ✔✔-species are organized in nature as a branching tree


-species were not created in their present form, but evolved from ancestral species


-the mechanism of change was natural selection


The major limiting factors for archaeological research are - ✔✔time, money, and people


The half life of Carbon-14 is - ✔✔5,730 years


Charles Lyell's 1865 book "The Geological Evidence for the Antiquity of Man" was important because -

✔✔it argued for an extremely old age of the earth, via the process of uniformitarianism


Traditional sampling strategies include - ✔✔random sampling


In radiocarbon dating, the death of an organism essientially "zeroes the scale" because it - ✔✔ends the

intake of Carbon-14


The time taken for half of the atoms of a radioactive isotope to decay is called its - ✔✔half life


A specialist from which of the four subfields of anthropology would be most likely to study ritual, belief,

kinship systems among the people in contemporary societies - ✔✔Cultural anthropology


Radiometric dating techniques are based on the principle that over time - ✔✔unstable isotopes decay into

stable isotopes




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