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ANT2100 Exam with correct AnswersNabonidus - Answers -"First Archeologist", died in 538 BC, babylonian king who dug
into the ziggurat in Iraq
Artifacts - Answers -object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-
produced
BC - Answers -Before Christ
AD - Answers -Anno Domini
CE - Answers -Common Era
BCE - Answers -Before Common Era
BP - Answers -Before Present
Francesco Petrarch - Answers -"Father of Humanism", looked to antiquity for moral
philosophy
Ciriaco De' Pizzicolli - Answers -Established modern discipline of archaeology
Coined "returning death to life"
Matthew Parker - Answers -Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop, Formed Society of
Antiquaries
Classical Archaeology - Answers -the branch of archaeology that studies the "classical"
civilization of the mediterranean, such as greece and rome, and the near east.
Antiquarians - Answers -Originally, someone who studied antiquities largely for the sake
of the objects themselves--not to understand the people or the culture that produced
them.
Midden - Answers -Refuse or deposit resulting from human activities, generally
consisting of sediment; food remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell;
and discarded artifacts
Potsherd - Answers -Fragment or property
Stratigraphy - Answers -A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of
geological and/or cultural sediments into layers, or strata
, Culture History - Answers -Archaeology practiced in the 20th Cent. "explains"
differences or changes over time in artifact frequencies by positing the diffusion of ideas
between neighboring cultures or the migration of a people
New Archaeology - Answers -an approach to archaeology that arose in the 1960s
emphasizing the understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the
scientific method; sometimes called processual archaeology.
C.B Moore - Answers -Antiquarian; he performed excavations in Florida. steamboat
named the Gopher.
Nels Nelson - Answers -America's first "working" Archaeologist. Worked in FL. Felt
archaeology should be public, **Heavy on descriptions**
A.V "Ted" Kidder - Answers -Founder of Anthropological Archaeology. Excavated
Peco's Pueblo and Mayan Region. Squeezed ceramics for chronological info.
James A. Ford - Answers -Refined pottery development with process of seriation.
Emphasis on Culture History.
Walter W. Taylor - Answers -Urged archaeologists to forsake temples and instead study
everyday people. Proposed to quantify data and test hypothesis
Trait lists - Answers -Used primarily to trace the movement of cultures across a
landscape through time.
Walter W. Taylor - Answers -Sought to study people's lives and not just beautiful
artifacts (1950's). Published very little.
Lewis R. Binford - Answers -Visionary, made Taylor's approach come to life. Really
tested hypothesis- 60's and 70's. NEW Archaeology
Kathleen A. Deagan - Answers -Female archaeologist. Interested in people, artifacts
were simply revenue for behavior.
Anthropology - Answers -Study of all aspects of human kind. Comparative approach
and the concept of culture.
Biological Anthropology - Answers -branch of anthropology that looks at humans from a
biological perspective
Cultural Anthropology - Answers -the branch of anthropology that deals with human
culture and society. (non-biological)
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