Ant 2100 FSU Mehta Introduction to Archaeology Midterm (Chp 1-6) *means he said to study this Questions And Answers
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Ant 2100 FSU Mehta Introduction to
Archaeology Midterm (Chp 1-6) *means he
said to study this Questions And Answers
*What are the Goals of Anthropology? (Chp 1) 1. When did humans live in the past?
2. Where did humans live in the past?
3. How did humans live in the past?
4. Why did changes ...
Ant 2100 FSU Mehta Introduction to
Archaeology Midterm (Chp 1-6) *means he
said to study this Questions And Answers
*What are the Goals of Anthropology? (Chp 1) 1. When did humans live in the past?
2. Where did humans live in the past?
3. How did humans live in the past?
4. Why did changes take place in past human societies?
5. Why are some sites/artifacts preserved and not others? How did a site come to be?
6. Preserve the past for the future.
*Types of Archaeology (Chp 1) 1. Classical Archaeology
2. Prehistoric Archaeology
3. Historic Archaeology
*1. Classical Archaeology (Chp 1) -Greek
-Roman
-Mediterranean World
-Western Asia
-Egypt
, Ant 2100 FSU Mehta Introduction to
Archaeology Midterm (Chp 1-6) *means he
said to study this Questions And Answers
-Europe
*2. Prehistoric Archaeology (Chp 1) Typically cultures that did not have written records -
The New World and Old World (Paleolithic to the Bronze Age)
*3. Historical Archaeology (Chp 1) Study of cultures that have written record
Contact Period Archaeology (Chp 1) -in some places the period when Europeans were
arriving and impacting/interacting with native peoples
-time of European contact until Revolutionary War (ca. 1492-1775)
Maya Ritual in Xibalba (Chp 1) -Hunahpu and Xbalanque, Hero twins from The
PopulVuh
-Caves as portals to the Underworld - Xibalba
-Ehecatl (Chaac), the rain god, also lived in Xibalba, and tributes to the rain god brought rain.
-In times of drought, Maya people ventured deeper in search of water.
-Solar alignments, astronomical alignments
, Ant 2100 FSU Mehta Introduction to
Archaeology Midterm (Chp 1-6) *means he
said to study this Questions And Answers
Catastrophism - Georges Cuiver (Chp 1) The idea that the Earth went through a series of
violent and sudden catastrophic destructions and subsequent creations with fossils in each layer
bounded by these processes
Uniformitarianism - Hutton (Chp 1) The same gradual geological processes we observe
today were operating in the past
Principles of Geology published between 1830 and 1833 - Lyell (Chp 1) Earth incredibly
older than the biblical chronology
Charles Darwin (Chp 1) Theory of Natural Selection
Three age system (Chp 1) 1. Stone Age
2. Bronze Age
3. Iron Age
, Ant 2100 FSU Mehta Introduction to
Archaeology Midterm (Chp 1-6) *means he
said to study this Questions And Answers
Stone Age (Chp 1) 1. Paleolithic
2. Neolithic
Biblical Chronology was disproven... (Chp 1) ...with the establishment of basic geologic
principles, evolutionary theory, and the final blow - human tools found with extinct animal bones
*Moundville 1000 AD to 1450 AD (Chp 1) Mississippian culture site on the Black
Warrior River in Hale County, near the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The site was the political
and ceremonial center of a regionally organized Mississippian culture chiefdom polity between
the 11th and 16th centuries. Encompasses 185 acres (75 ha), consisting of 29 platform mounds
around a rectangular plaza. Most mounds are in pairs called Platform/conical mounds. Second-
largest site in the United States of the classic Middle Mississippian era, after Cahokia in Illinois.
The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River
Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.
-Complex chiefdom
-high social stratification
-Big difference between rich and poor
-Circle cross, Bird Motifs, Eye in hand - Part of south eastern ceremonial complex
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