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ASB 222 STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

ASB 222 REVISION PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ What was Mesopotamia's writing system - -hollow clay envelopes were used to enclose clay tokens and record transactions -scribes of Mesopotamia would make elaborate engravings as a sign. -Around 4000 BC, clay envelopes are impressed on the outside with the tokens -about 200 kinds of token have identified -is the earliest writing system in world around 3000 BC -Gives the archaeologist the value of economic commodities fr...

ASB 222 MIDTERM EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ Manual of Discipline - Written for small communities of israelites intentionally living in poverty in the outskirts of town waiting for the Messiah to come. they believed he would arrive at any time. purpose for manual was to set forrth rules for living out there like how to share the water, etc. Iron Age - 1200-586 BC - Developments of Kingdoms begin in ancient isreal Primarily Israelites Letter to Jerusalem - Letter sent f...

ASB 222 MAIN EXAM TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ The hominins that exited Africa during the first out of Africa migration were anatomically modern humans. - False The development of complex language helps separate modern humans from our earlier ancestors. - True When do biologically modern humans appear in the archaeological record? - 200kya The last glaciation (during the Late Pleistocene) was marked by large continental ice sheets and a cool, dry climate, and a drop i...

ASB 222 FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

ASB 222 EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ Clay Tokens - Small geometric shapes of clay, some bearing impressed symbols, dating back to as much as 10,000 years ago in the Middle East that appear to represent an early system of record keeping. Envelope - Name given to clay containers used to store clay tokens in the Middle East beginning 5500 years ago. The clay tokens were of various shapes and used as an information storage system. Cuneiform - Early form of written r...

ASB 222 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ You are an archaeologist excavating a site and you find an artifact of a type you've never seen before. Which method would NOT help you figure out what the artifact was used for in the past? - Survey Cultural evolution is a form of progress and improvement in the lives of humans. - False Early human populations lived in harmony with their surroundings, and never affected their environment. - True Which of the follo...

ASB 222 ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ Power Questing - Making journeys to powerful places for personal prestige Beyond 'known world' Pass through territories of different peoples Physically challenging Spiritual journey Ritual objects and purpose - Symbols of status and authority, used in various ritualistic practices Charnel House - a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited Ranked society/cheifdom - a group in which wealth is not str...

What is the population of Greece? - ANS 10,716,322 or 10.7 million What is the capital of Greece? - ANS Athens What is the population of Greece's capital? - ANS 3,154,463 or 3.1 million What are the two largest cities in Greece? - ANS 1. Athens 2. Thessaloniki What do the people of Greece call their flag? - ANS "Blue and White" What does the white cross on the Greece flag represent? - ANS Greek Orthodoxy (Greece's establi...

Archaeology - ANS study of ancient things Simple random - ANS Sampling in which the quadrants chosen are completely random Stratified random - ANS Sampling in which the quadrants chosen are random, but guaranteed to cover a certain area Systematic sampling - ANS Sampling in which the quadrants chosen are done so in a grid pattern Bulb of percussion - ANS A convex surface on a stone from pressure applied to the opposite side Flake/blade - ANS...