ANT 304 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers 2024/2025
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ANT 304 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers 2024/2025
Lecture 2
What is Archaeology? - Correct Answer Archaeology uses scientific methods to recover and examine the remains of past societies
Archaeology IS - Correct Answer -going to region and access sights
-survey land an...
ANT 304 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers 2024/2025
Lecture 2
What is Archaeology? - Correct Answer Archaeology uses scientific methods to recover and examine
the remains of past societies
Archaeology IS - Correct Answer -going to region and access sights
-survey land and assess resources
-exhibition
-lab work
-DISSEMINATING RESULTS= most imp
Archaeology is a subfield of anthropology - Correct Answer Four field approach:
-archaeology
-linguistic anthropology
-biological anthropology
-social-cultural anthropology
What is Anthropology - Correct Answer the study of humans and human societies in all of their
aspects, biological, cultural, linguistic, archaeological
what is the relevance of Archaeology for the modern world? - Correct Answer - hoe people have
adapted to climate change through the millennia
-how we can address future food insecurity by learning about past agricultural systems
-how knowledge of cultural heritage enriches the lives of modern peoples
-learning from the past mistakes and successes of great civilizations to build a bright, equitable, and
sustainable future
Levantine Epipaleolithic: Human Environment Interactions - Correct Answer -20-12,000 years ago
-High diversity in plants resources
-greater use of small seeded grasses than wild cereals
,use of wetland resources
Ancient Archaeology - Correct Answer -People have always specualted about their past
-Mesopotamians:
-Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Middle Ages in Western Europe
The origins of archaeology as science - Correct Answer hypothesis--> data--> test--> back to
hypothesis
-we use scientific method in everyday life
Until the 19th century, the guiding world view of Western science was only the _____ - Correct
Answer Biblical narrative
***KEY concepts from the Early Development of Archaeology - Correct Answer -the great antiquity of
the earn
-the laws of "uniformitarianism"
the Industrial Revolution 1760-1990 - Correct Answer -towns and cities of Western Europe expanded
-growing number of discoveries
-became more difficult to explain w/in the accepted paradigms and explanatory concepts in the
decades leading up to the industrial revolution
History of archaeology- Antiquarians - Correct Answer -500 years ago the intellectual climate of
Europe began to change rapidly- PRINTING PRESS
Why were the early Antiquarians struggling to interpret the flint artifacts and strange animal bones
they found? What were the missing pieces of the puzzle? - Correct Answer -the great antiquity of the
earth
the laws of "uniformitarianism"
Charles Lyell - Correct Answer Father of Modern Geology
Uniformitarianism - Correct Answer -articulated by James Hutton and Charles Lyell (1785-1850s)
, -landsurfaces shaped by imperceptibility slow, erosive action of water
-PRESENT IS THE KEY TO THE PAST
-these ideas led the rock cycle
Modern Geology - Correct Answer -modern scientists like Stephen Gould have challenged Lyell's
uniformatarianism
-most geologic change is gradual and uniform but catastrophes have caused geologic change
On the Origin of Species (1859) - Correct Answer - a major contribution to evolutionary biology, but
Darwin chose not to address human origins in this book
Archaeology and Natural Origins - Correct Answer -as state societies traced their own origins to
earlier civilizations, they struggled with the prob of chronology
chronology - Correct Answer how to study and date societies that were not described in the
documentary record
stratigraphy - Correct Answer developed in late 1700s as more careful excavations began to be
conducted, an important concept for understanding relative chronology
William Smith - Correct Answer Father of English Geology
Lyell's Principles of Geology established the concept of _______ in geology - Correct Answer
uniformitarianism
Smith gave us the ______ tool to determine relative chronologies - Correct Answer stratigraphic
Stratigraphy and Chronology - Correct Answer -Iron age
-bronze age
-stone age
20th century archaeology - Correct Answer -measures deep time: absolute and relative dates
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