ANT 2100 Final Questions And Answers
Exploring the possible ways to make a projectile point is an example of _________, while
observing the way a living group of people make projectile points is an example of _________
experimental archaeology; ethnoarchaeology
Taphonomic research at the Hud...
Exploring the possible ways to make a projectile point is an example of _________, while
observing the way a living group of people make projectile points is an example of _________
experimental archaeology; ethnoarchaeology
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
, ANT 2100 Final 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
Size classes categorize faunal remains to one of five categories based on body size. Animals
assigned to class 5 include giraffes, hippos, and elephants
What would the MNI be for the following hypothetical assemblage of adult bison bones: 4 left
humeri, 2 left femura, 4 right femura, 5 skulls, and 6 left scapulae 6
The faunal assemblage from the site of Chavín de Huántar, Peru, contains an abundance of leg
bones with few cranial and foot bones. This pattern has been explained by ch'arki trade;
dried llama and alpaca meat on leg bones was traded into the site from high-altitude herding
communities
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
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