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ANT 2100 FINAL TEST QUESTIONS AND REVISED ANSWERS ALL CORRECT What hypothesis best explains the origin and content of Chavín iconography? - Answer- Chavín's religious leaders deliberately imported lowland symbolism, perhaps believing that exotic lowland people had powerful esoteric knowledge;...

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ANT 2100 FINAL TEST QUESTIONS
AND REVISED ANSWERS ALL
CORRECT

What hypothesis best explains the origin and content of Chavín iconography? - Answer-
Chavín's religious leaders deliberately imported lowland symbolism, perhaps believing
that exotic lowland people had powerful esoteric knowledge; this interpretation is
supported by ethnographic and ethnohistoric documentation

The earliest evidence of artistic expression appears only in the last_______ years, but
does not become widespread until the last_______ years ago - Answer- 100,000;
40,000

The Upper Paleolithic, the last major division of the Old World Paleolithic, dates to -
Answer- 40,000-10,000 BC

The paradigm that holds that human culture is the expression of unconscious modes of
thought and reasoning, notably binary opposition, is - Answer- structuralism

Which of the following is true of the interpretation of Upper Paleolithic cave art? -
Answer- Because we lack any associated ethnographic data for the Upper Paleolithic, it
is very difficult to securely interpret the meaning of symbols used in this art

In Upper Paleolithic cave art, human characteristics are - Answer- rarely represented,
and when they are represented are poorly executed compared to the marvelously
depicted animal figures

Early plantation archaeology (prior to the 1960s) was primarily aimed at - Answer-
architectural reconstruction, emphasizing the grandeur of the antebellum way of life

Bioarchaeological analysis of the burials from the African Burial Ground site in New
York City showed that - Answer- half of the population died before reaching the age of
12, with another peak in mortality between the ages of 15 and 20

What happened to the human skeletal remains from the African Burial Ground project? -
Answer- They were reburied in October of 2003, after they had been analyzed

, Archaeological investigation of the battlefield at Little Bighorn was able to determine
combatant positions and movements. How was this accomplished? - Answer- Survey
with metal detectors that located cartridges and bullets, the positions of which were then
carefully mapped

A concern with historic preservation in the United States can be traced to - Answer- the
late 18th century, when societies were formed to ensure the protection of historically
significant properties

The 1906 Antiquities Act - Answer- required a federal permit before excavating or
collecting artifacts from federal land

NAGPRA refers to the - Answer- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act

The courts ruled in the "Kennewick Man" case that the 9400-year-old human skeleton -
Answer- was not Native American as defined under NAGPRA, and that even if he were,
he could not be culturally affiliated with any of the tribes who claimed him

The difference between pure science and applied science is - Answer- pure science is
systematic research directed toward acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, while
applied science is research to acquire the knowledge necessary to solve a specific,
recognized problem

The application of archaeological and bioarchaeological knowledge for legal purposes is
- Answer- forensic archaeology


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 are 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

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