ANT 2100 Final Exam Chapter 7-13 Questions And Answers
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ANT 2100
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ANT 2100
ANT 2100 Final Exam Chapter 7-13
Questions And Answers
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 ...
ANT 2100 Final Exam Chapter 7-13
Questions And Answers
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 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 main purpose of a zooarchaeological comparative collection is to help
zooarchaeologists identify archaeofaunas.
, ANT 2100 Final Exam Chapter 7-13
Questions And Answers
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
Analysis of the archaeofauna from the site of Chavín de Huántar, Peru, indicates a change
in diet through time, with increasing reliance on domesticated llamas.
The NISP provides a measurement of abundance and diversity of animals represented at a
site.
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.
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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