The goal of archaeology is to __________.
a. find treasure
b. dig square holes
c. understand past human lives by studying the objects they left behind
d. more fully understand dinosaurs
Which of the following statements describes Nasca polychrome pottery?
a. It was reserved for members of the elite.
b. It is found widely distributed around the Nasca area.
c. It was traded from Mesoamerica.
d. It was not made of clay.
Ideas that archaeologists have developed about the past and about the way we come to
know about the past are referred to as ___________.
a. antiquarianism
b. archaeological theories
c. hermeneutics
d. historicism
________ twisted the archaeological record to reinforce German nationalism and
support the Nazi party.
a. Gustav Kossinna
b. Flinders Petri
c. John Lubbock
d. Heinrich Schliemann
Which of the following is an absolute dating method?
a. relative chronology
b. seriation
c. radiocarbon
d. regional chronology
Mary Stiner characterized Neanderthal populations as -__________.
a. warlike and savage
b. exceptionally small and mobile
c. quite civilized and peaceful
d. fully sedentary cave-dwellers
The prowess of the Harappan state is expressed in __________.
a. compulsory public education
b. their truly egalitarian society
c. advanced science and mathematics
d. meticulously planned, urban construction
In zooarchaeology, MNI estimates are calculated by __________.
a. counting the most numerous unique skeletal element of each species
b. counting the number of identifiable specimens
c. estimating the number of bones per excavation unit
d. taking the total number of bones and dividing by the number of different species
__________ is a component of the study of agriculture.
a. Community
b. Aesthetics
c. Stratification
d. Architecture
The site that poses the most serious threat to the Clovis First hypothesis is __________.
a. Blackwater Draw, New Mexico
b. Monte Verde, Chile
c. Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru
d. Pedra Pintada, Brazil
Silica structures that build up along plant cell walls are called __________.
a. pollen casts
b. ecoliths
c. phytoliths
d. starch grains
The stone circle found at the DK site __________.
a. has been dismissed as a hoax
b. was a crude fortification for protection against predators
c. was a raw material stockpile for make tools
d. might be evidence of a temporary structure built on a home-base site
Raised field agriculture __________.
a. was shown to not be that useful
b. was used at Tiwanaku
c. did not involve irrigation
d. was used only for root crops
Pottery manufacture developed across the Middle East during the __________ period.
a. Natufian
b. Upper Paleolithic
c. Late Neolithic
d. Younger Dryas
Fossils of modern humans dated to between 120,000 and 70,000 years ago have been
discovered at __________.
a. Klasies River Mouth, South Africa
b. Lascaux Cave, France
c. Kebara Cave, Israel
d. Howiesons Poort, South Africa
Which of the following descriptions best characterizes the Fertile Crescent?
a. It is an area between the Middle East and India.
b. It is a ribbon of Mediterranean climate that arcs across the Middle East.
c. It was the region where rice was domesticated.
d. It has wet summers and dry winters.
The first true pyramid, known as the Red Pyramid, was built by King __________ of
the fourth dynasty.
a. Cheops
b. Akhenaten
c. Snefru
d. Djoser
Archaeologists have used __________ on skeletal material to determine the role of
maize in the diet.
a. macro analysis
b. isotope analysis
c. electron spin resonance
d. radiocarbon analysis
Which of the following genera of hominin are found in Asia?
a. Australopithecus
b. Homo
c. Paranthropus
d. Kenyanthropus
The discovery of __________ suggests that the people who built Stonehenge had a
society that included elites.
a. a cache of gold amulets
b. the iceman
c. the Amesbury Archer
d. seven partially completed Moai
Modern human skeletons have been found in the Middle Paleolithic levels of
__________.
a. Blombos Cave, South Africa
b. Skhul Cave, Israel
c. Border Cave, South Africa
d. Shanidar Cave, Iraq
Which of these plants was domesticated during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B?
a. corn
b. potatoes
c. wheat
d. tobacco
Colin Renfrew has argued that the people who built Stonehenge were organized in
__________.
a. states
b. chiefdoms
c. tribes
d. bands
________ refer to software applications that allow spatial data to be brought together
and consolidated.
a. U.S. Geodetic Surveys (USGS)
b. Geographic Positioning Systems (GPS)
c. Universal Transverse Mercators (UTM)
d. Geographic Information systems (GIS)
Monte Verde is the earliest known site in Australia.
What is the oldest known fossil thought to belong to the hominin lineage?
a. Paranthropus bosei
b. Ardipithecus ramidus
c. Australopithecus afarensis
d. Sahelanthropous tchadensis
Political entities that bring together a diverse and heterogeneous group of societies
under one ruler are called __________.
a. states
b. chiefdoms
c. coalitions
d. empires
This simple flake tool industry was an English contemporary of the Acheulian.
a. Levallois
b. Boxgrovian
c. Clactonian
d. Mousterian
Where did the Minoans live?
a. Crete
b. Thera
c. Peloponnese
d. Troy
Which of the following describes roads in the Inca Empire?
a. They did not exist.
b. They were only passable by llama or alpaca.
c. They were used by relay messengers.
d. They were symbolic roads for the gods.
One of the most complete pictures of a hunter-gatherer village in North Africa comes
from the North African site of __________.
a. Akhreijit
b. Uan Afuda
c. Dhar Tichit
d. Nabta Playa
The first cities in Mesopotamia developed during the __________ period.
a. Chalcolithi
b. Uruk
c. Neolithic
d. Ubaid
Describe the Adena and Hopewell cultures.
What is the importance of Anyang to Chinese history?
What is the home-base/food-sharing model?
What was the role of meat in the Neanderthal diet?
What is optimal foraging theory?