ANTH 202 Final Exam Questions Solved 100% Current Version ()
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ANTH 202 Final Exam Questions Solved 100% Current Version ()
___________ is an expedient way to find ancient encampments (open archaeological sites) that are buried 10m below the surface. - Answers A survey of deep cutback walls
The concepts of Neolithic and Urban revolutions were developed by __...
ANTH 202 Final Exam Questions Solved 100% Current Version (2024-2025)
___________ is an expedient way to find ancient encampments (open archaeological sites) that are
buried 10m below the surface. - Answers A survey of deep cutback walls
The concepts of Neolithic and Urban revolutions were developed by ________. - Answers V. Gordon
Childe
One of the earliest attempts to use the archaeological record to answer specific questions about the
past was made by ___________. - Answers Monarch Nabondius
The important book entitled Principles of Geology (1833) was written by ______. - Answers Charles Lyell
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) serves the same purposes as ________ & __________. - Answers
Longitude & Latitude
A hectare is roughly equal to ________. - Answers 2.5 acres
____________ is the study of ancient human modification of the environment. - Answers Landscape
archaeology
The most physically difficult surveying technique is ________. - Answers shovel testing
Three point provenience data is comprised of _________, ________, & ________ data. - Answers
horizontal (x), vertical (y), & elevation (z)
Research designs are especially important for which of the following types of archaeological projects? -
Answers Test excavation
Large-scale excavations
surveys
Anthropology is the discipline that _________. - Answers Holistically studies mankind
Prior to the 1950's, archaeologists _____________. - Answers Usually presented simple documentation
Hidden Cave, which was excavated by the authors of your textbook, __________________. - Answers
gave only limited insight into the lives of people who lived in the area.
Based on the geological evidence, the footprints at Laetoli were determined to be ________________. -
Answers approximately 3,500,000 years old. (3.5 million)
___________ is the cultural and natural actions that work together to create an archaeological site. -
Answers Site formation
_____________ attests that casual priority is assigned to the modes of production and reproduction,
hence the Principles of Infrastructural Determinism. - Answers Cultural materialism
, Your textbook--Archaeology--was written by ____________. - Answers Robert Kelly & David Thomas
Which of the following is NOT at ecofact? (woven grass basket, deer bone, charcoal, dried berries,
mussel shell) - Answers Woven grass basket
Which of the following field methods was most successful in finding unmarked graves at Matagorda
Cemetery? - Answers Backhoe / gradall excavation
What is post-processual archaeology? - Answers Views archaeology as inherently political and is more
concerned with interpreting the past.
What is the purpose of a vertical excavation? - Answers To expose a sequence of occupations in the
same location.
GPS (global positioning system), Brunton pocket transit, a notebook, markers, and Ziplock bags are part
of _______. - Answers A surveyor's tool kit.
An ex-slave named George McJunkin found the site known as _______. - Answers Folsom
Which scholar confronted established archaeologists in the 1960's and 1970's with a new way of
studying the past, and a new agenda for documenting archaeology? - Answers Lewis Binford
Discovery of "Kennewick Man", __________ led to considerable controversy as to whether or not the
remains were those of an ancient Native American. - Answers along the banks of the Columbia River,
Washington
As discussed in your textbook, paradigms provide overarching frameworks for understanding the
_________. - Answers human condition
The Richard Beene site is buried in 15m of fine-grained _________. - Answers alluvium
Which of the following is not considered to be a major sub-discipline (subdivision) of anthropology? -
Answers Primatology
Post-processual archaeology __________. - Answers -Rejects scientific method as the sole source of
knowledge
-Archaeologists are subject to biases
-Argues that all archaeology is unavoidably political
-Rejects the systematic view of culture
What diet staples can result in higher levels of carbon and nitrogen, respectively, in teeth and bones? -
Answers Maize
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