Archaeologists suggest that the large stone heads (Moai) of Easter Island were
__________.
a. built by competing chiefs during periods of prosperity
b. portraits of past rulers
c. boundary markers for different factions on the island
d. offerings to the gods
The property of the Inca emperor became the property of his descendants, who were
known as his __________.
a. panaqa
b. khipu
c. urubamba
d. pago
Excavation of the rural site of __________have produced insight into provincial life
under the Aztecs.
a. Cusco
b. Cuexcomate
c. Texcoco
d. Tlapocn
Which of these is a model for the human occupation of the Americas?
a. Beringia
b. Indigenous development
c. Clovis First
d. Wallacea Ancestry
Although the Natufians did not appear to domesticate herd animals, there is evidence
that they did domesticate __________.
a. cats
b. camels
c. dogs
d. chickens
To recover the charred botanical remains (wood & seeds) it is often necessary to
employ a method known as __________.
a. filtration
b. flotation
c. dry screening
d. piece plotting
Which statement best represents the state of tourism at archaeological sites?
a. It destroys sites and should not be allowed.
b. It is predominantly run through indigenous community leadership.
c. It can be used for political gain.
d. Tourism takes precedence over archaeological research at most sites.
Examples of tools as funerary offerings can be found at __________.
a. Kebara Cave
b. Sima de los Huestos
c. Lascaux Cave
d. Divje Babe 1 Cave
Which of the following European sites have occupations dating to over 500,000 years
ago?
a. Atapuerca
b. Boxgrove
c. Bose
d. Schoningen
A major source of information on Aztec history and culture was compiled by Friar
Bernardo de Sahagn in the __________.
a. Florentine Codex
b. Historia de las Indias
c. Conquistador Codex
d. Orbo Nueva
Why did the Nile farmers not have the salination problems that plagued Mesopotamian
farmers?
a. The Aswan dam made irrigation unnecessary.
b. They used fertilizers rich in potassium salts.
c. There is no salt in the Egyptian soil.
d. The annual flooding of the Nile replenished the soil.
Which of the following statements is true about the construction of Stonehenge?
a. It was originally part of a roofed temple structure.
b. It was built entirely from local materials.
c. It was built over a period of more than 1000 years.
d. It was built by aliens.
What was the Lanzn?
a. the core of the temple at Chavn de Huntar
b. the leader of the Nasca
c. the raised fields used in the Andean highlands
d. the system of knotted string used to keep records
Elman Service divides human societies into which of the following categories?
a. savages, barbarians, and civilizations
b. bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states
c. egalitarian, ranked, and stratified
d. foragers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, and agriculturalists
The recognition that the shape of stone tools evolves throughout their use-life is
referred to as the __________.
a. adaptive cycle
b. Darwin effect
c. Frison effect
d. lithic tool cycle
What refinement of radiocarbon dating makes it possible to date very small samples?
a. optically stimulated luminescence
b. obsidian hydration
c. accelerator mass spectrometry
d. electron spin resonance
What Natufian village site in Northern Israel has allowed archaeologists to tentatively
reconstruct a large structure?
a. Jerf el Ahmar
b. Lepinski Vir
c. Jericho
d. Mallaha
Which archaeologist proposed the idea of a Neolithic Revolution characterized by
agricultural villages?
a. John Frere
b. John Lubbock
c. V. Gordon Childe
d. Lewis Binford
The Inca empire fell to a small group of Spaniards under the command of __________.
a. Francisco Pizarro
b. Francisco Coronado
c. Heran Cortez
d. Hernando de Soto
Mesopotamia is found between the Tigris and Euphrates, centered in what modern
country?
a. Iran
b. Iraq
c. Syria
d. Turkey
Which of these theories stresses the interaction between the presuppositions we bring to
a problem and the independent empirical reality of our observations and experiences?
a. systems theory
b. hermeneutics
c. heuristics
d. induction
Which of the following industries is transitional between the Middle and Upper
Paleolithic?
a. Chatelperronian
b. Mousterian
c. Olduwan
d. Magdalenian
Great Zimbabwe was a foreign trading post in Shona-speaking South Africa.
Homo floresiensis is the first hominin species to appear in China.
What is the presumed function of the famed Nasca Lines?
a. processions or observations
b. landing strips for extraterrestrial aircraft
c. human sacrifice
d. territorial markings
What does the climate record produced by the analysis of deep sea cores show?
a. The world was covered by glaciers for the past 800,000 years.
b. There were only two distinct ice ages.
c. Today’s global warming is unique in geologic history.
d. The extent of glaciation and the rapidity of climate change vary considerably.
This genus represents a robust early hominin with massive molars and chewing muscles
that dates to between 2.5″1.4 million years ago.
a. Paranthropus
b. Australopithecus
c. Ardipithecus
d. Sahelanthropus
What is the first hominin species to be found outside of Africa?
a. Homo erectus
b. Homo ergaster
c. Homo habilis
d. Homo floresiensis
The oldest know fossil of a modern human was discovered at __________.
a. Swartkrans
b. Klasies River Mouth
c. Herto
d. Howiesons Poort
What 400,000 year-old, remarkable find has been discovered at the site of Schningen,
Germany?
a. over 100,000 stone tools, all chippers and flakes
b. a mammoth vertebra with a spear point embedded in it
c. the remains of more than 40 Homo erectus individuals
d. three wooden spears
The Middle Stone Age refers to the archaeological period of the earliest modern
humans in Africa.
Geological strata can be classified by the __________.
a. the type of rock they consist of
b. the diversity of fossils found within them
c. the length of time it took to dig through the layer
d. the moistness of the soil
The most spectacular example of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A construction is the
9-meter-high structure at __________.
a. Jericho
b. Mallaha
c. Abu Hureya
d. Jerf el Ahmar
Which of these have been suggested as an interpretation of the purpose of cave art?
a. recordings of debt and payments
b. early writing of the group’s history
c. fertility magic
d. mathematics
How did Lewis Henry Morgan and V. Gordon Childe view the relationship between
man and nature as it related to the development of agriculture?
What is the basis for our stereotype of Neanderthals as hulking ape-men ? ʺ ʺ
How has archaeology answer:ed the question of whether tuberculosis was endemic or
introduced to the Americas?
What was the Nasca culture, and why was it important?
What made Egypt an ideal place for the rise of social complexity?
What is middle-range research?
How does the trade in antiquities affect archaeology?
Describe two living archaeology techniques used by archaeologists to help interpret ʺ ʺ
archaeological remains.
How has gender been misinterpreted by archaeologists?
What is the African Middle Stone Age?
At the end of the Early Neolithic, there was a sharp rise in the number and size of
villages in the Middle East.
What was Stiner’s hypothesis on the nature of Neanderthal group size and mobility?
What role did palaces have in Aegean society?
What is the significance of the Blombos Cave objects?
What were the goals of the New Archaeology?
What is the archaeological evidence for the fate of the Neanderthals?
Explain the difference between and the purpose of horizontal and vertical excavation.