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ANT 2100 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass In geology, the principle of uniformitarianism asserts - 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 archae...

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In geology, the principle of uniformitarianism asserts - ✔✔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 are known as - ✔✔relational analogies


Analogies justified by similarities in the formal attributes of archaeological and ethnographic objects and

features are known as - ✔✔formal analogies


The goal of middle-level theory is to - ✔✔help build secure inferences from archaeological remains


Taphonomy is useful to archaeology because it - ✔✔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 _________ - ✔✔experimental

archaeology; ethnoarchaeology


Taphonomic research at the Hudson-Meng bison bonebed in northwest Nebraska showed that: -

✔✔Natural processes such as incomplete burial and subsequent exposure to sunlight could have caused

the tops of the bison skulls to decompose


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




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, sufficiently sophisticated to produce monuments like the pyramids, is an example of - ✔✔experimental

archaeology


The primary objective of ethnoarchaeology is to - ✔✔relate behavior to archaeologically observable

phenomena


Regarding trash disposal, Kelly's research among the Mikea of Madagascar revealed - ✔✔that people

deposited their trash further from their homes the longer the settlement was occupied


The first step in faunal analysis is to assign each specimen to _____________ - ✔✔element


When analyzing a faunal assemblage, zooarchaeologists attempt to identify a specimen to all of the

following except - ✔✔date


Size classes categorize faunal remains to one of five categories based on body size. Animals assigned to

class 5 include - ✔✔giraffes, hippos, and elephants


What would the MNI be for the following hypothetical assemblage of adult bison bones: 4 left humeri, 2

left femura, 4 right femura, 5 skulls, and 6 left scapulae - ✔✔6


The faunal assemblage from the site of Chavín de Huántar, Peru, contains an abundance of leg bones

with few cranial and foot bones. This pattern has been explained by - ✔✔ch'arki trade; dried llama and

alpaca meat on leg bones was traded into the site from high-altitude herding communities


An archaeologist involved in analyzing and interpreting plant remains from archaeological sites in order

to understand past interactions between human populations and plants would be a -

✔✔paleoethnobotanist


Macrobotanical remains include all of the following except - ✔✔camelid bones


In reconstructing ancient environments, pollen is useful for all of the following reasons except - ✔✔it

rarely fluctuates in quantity making it ideal for reconstructing ancient environments




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