ANT 2000 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED 2024/2025 LATEST UPDATE
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ANT 2000 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED 2024/2025 LATEST UPDATE
When archeologists excavate a site, they always: - Answer- excavate a small part of a site to preserve the site for future archeologists
You have a sample of bone found on an archaeological site and you want to...
ANT 2000 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED 2024/2025 LATEST UPDATE
When archeologists excavate a site, they always: - Answer- excavate a small part of a
site to preserve the site for future archeologists
You have a sample of bone found on an archaeological site and you want to estimate its
age. Which of the following methods would you try? - Answer- radiocarbon dating
All of the following are tools used by archeologists to map a site except: - Answer-
survey
The general principle that older remains are found on the button of stratigraphic
columns while newer or more recent remains appear at the top is called the: - Answer-
law of superposition
collections of material culture and the remains of human behavior that only make sense
in association with another and cannot be moved are known as: - Answer- features
archaeologists that reconstruct techniques and processes used in the past to create
artifacts, art, and architecture that we see in the archaeological record are: - Answer-
experimental archaeologists
human interference with the reproduction of another species with the result that specific
plants and animals become more useful to people while also becoming increasingly
dependent on them to survive is called: - Answer- domestication
which of these is not a hypothesis for how and why domestication occured? - Answer-
hungry man hypothesis
The process of increasingly permanent human habitation in one place is called -
Answer- sedentism
which of the following was not a direct consequence of agriculture - Answer- these are
all consequences of agriculture
hunter and gatherers must work harder and spend more time securing food to survive
than agriculturalists - Answer- false
, according to the text, something that is "complex" is both - Answer- diverse and
integrated
the idea that every culture will pass through three specific stages of evolution -
barbarism, savagery, and civilization- was proposed by: - Answer- lewis henry morgan
complex societies always have: - Answer- all of the above
the holocene epoch is characterized by a(n): - Answer- warmer, wetter, and more stable
climate
agriculture begins with: - Answer- cultivation
match the artifact or research objective with the archaeological specialist that studies it.
reconstruct the demography of a past population - Answer- osteologist
match the artifact or research objective with the archaeological specialist that studies it.
determine the clay and tempter used in a piece of pottery - Answer- ceramicist
match the artifact or research objective with the archaeological specialist that studies it.
identify sources of stone found at a site - Answer- lithicist
match the artifact or research objective with the archaeological specialist that studies it.
analyze glyphs on a stone monument - Answer- epigrapher
a set of beliefs that justifies the behaviors of a certain group of people is a(n): - Answer-
ideology
the maya calculated that the world would end december 2012 - Answer- false
the breakdown of a complex society, either abruptly or more slowly over a certain period
of time, is known as: - Answer- collapse
the idea that social and political complexity developed in arid regions as a mechanism
to control important large-scale systems such as irrigation, drainage, and flood control is
known as the: - Answer- hydraulic hypothesis
according to systems theory, complex societies are static and unchanging - Answer-
false
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