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Post-processual archaeology has completely replaced the New Archaeology. Multi-period, deep sites, such as village mounds in the Near East, show few if any traces of their deepest levels on the surface. Answer: False The main difference between optical dating and […]

Diatoms are useful for identifying whether ancient bodies of water were fresh, brackish or salt, but not for finer-grained analytical questions, such as the level of water salinity or nutrient status. It is not easy to identify the intentions of […]

Darwin’s work on evolution did not have a large or immediate impact on archaeologists. The Rosetta Stone was discovered during Pitt-Rivers’s military expedition to India (1798″1800). Answer: False Using differences in tree-rings to tie a wooden structure to a calendar […]

Through seriation, assemblages of artifacts are arranged in serial order, which is taken to indicate a) their relative worth b) what year they were excavated c) their relative ordering in time d) where they were discovered on the site grid […]

The process of excavation inherently entails destruction. Power relationships in the past are often depicted pictorially. Answer: True Thanks to the efforts of dedicated aboriginal groups in Australia, some human remains that were exhumed in the past by archaeologists without […]

Although ice core analysis suggests that the next ice age should be 15,000 years in the future, _________ appears to be having an effect on the normal cycle of the earth’s temperature a) the tilt of the earth b) human […]

The return of human remains or other artifacts to their country of culture of origin is called a) colonialism b) repatriation c) preservation d) restoration e) reconstruction Volcanic glass which is used to make chipped stone tools is a particularly […]

Much of the portable art from the Ice Age is of animals, but the most famous pieces are the so-called _____________, such as the example from Willendorf, Austria a) fertility figurines b) Venus figurines c) birthing figurines d) grotesque figurines […]

The Pazyryk bodies, found in ________________, were so well preserved by their constant frozen state that archaeologists not only recovered linen shirts, aprons, and stockings but could also see tattoos a) southern Siberia b) southern Sinai c) South Africa d) […]

The vast majority of archaeological sites that are found during survey in advance of construction in the United States a) do not meet the criteria to be considered significant and are recorded and destroyed b) are major archaeological sites that […]

The most effective system ever devised by humans to describe the world around them is a) cave art b) mobiliary art c) pictorial representation d) writing e) all of these systems are equally effective The argument that large-scale irrigation alone […]