Ethnoarchaeology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Archaeology Exam 3 Questions With 100% Correct Answers Analogy - answerNoting similarities between two entities and inferring from that similarity that an additional attribute of one (the ethnographic case) is also true for the other (the archaeological case). Principal of Uniformitarianism - answerThe principle asserting that the processes now operating to modify the earth's surface are the same processes that operated long ago in the geological past. faunal - answerin archaeology, ani...

ANP 203 Exam 2 Questions with complete solution how do archaeologists order artifacts into time series (seriation) using the principle of superstition? how do artifacts serve as time markers and help archaeologists cross-date sites? artifacts are ordered earliest (deeper) --> latest, (overlie) showing that deeper, underlying levels are older than those that overlie them. some artifacts that are dated can serve as markers for similar artifacts that are not yet dated and help sequence these....

Anthropology Ch 1-3 Terms, questions and answers 100% correct Anthropology study of humankind in all times and places Applied anthropology use of an anthropological knowledge to solve practical problems; often for a specific client Medical anthropology brings theoretical and applied approach to cultural and biological anthropology to study of human health and disease Cultural anthropology study of patterns of human behavior, thoughts, and emotions; focus on humans as cu...

Domestication as a process correct answersContrast with hunter gather style of food subsistence Hunter gatherers; hunt and collect foods Agriculturalists: full-time farmers Earliest members of our genus were likely what? correct answersscavengers What did early humans do? correct answersHunted and gathered How old is the history of farming? correct answers10,000 years old Thomas Hobbes' idea in the state of nature correct answersThe natural condition of mankind is what ...

Archaeology Exam 3 Questions With 100% Correct Answers Analogy Noting similarities between two entities and inferring from that similarity that an additional attribute of one (the ethnographic case) is also true for the other (the archaeological case). Principal of Uniformitarianism The principle asserting that the processes now operating to modify the earth's surface are the same processes that operated long ago in the geological past. faunal in archaeology, animal bones in archa...

This is a set of notes that is all about ethnoarchaeology and this topic has been on every exam especially the final. This correlates with my anthropology 110 class

ANT 240: Final Exam Questions With Verified Answers How do we get from the archaeological record to data? - answer- Low level theory: transforming observation into interpretation in the field and lab. - Hearth, midden/trash heap, pottery type. How do we get from the data to human behavior? - answerHow can we connect statics to dynamics? - Archaeological record (dead, unmoving). - Human behavior (living). Processual archaeology's answer: middle-level theory. Trying to establish necessar...

Optimal Foraging correct answers - archaeological theory - helps to predict which foods foragers will harvest based on some principles borrowed from evolutionary ecology. - the diet-breadth model predicts that as high return rate resources become rare, the diet should expand to include lower rate resources Obsidian correct answers - rock that is produced when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly without crystal growth - used to process lithic tools such as arrowheads - occurs naturall...

How is organic material culture preserved (mat.s other than stone, pottery, and bone) in the environment? - ANSwater-logged locations, oxygen-starved locations (peat bogs, ocean/ocean floor), caves, areas that experience deep freezes; In NE, typically preserved at reg. arch. sites due to carbonization How has Darwin's theory of evolution by nat. selection influenced anthropology/arch.? How does cultural inheritance differ from genetic inheritance? - ANSDarwin: Cultures can change/evolve ov...