CGS SS 93035

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What was the earliest domesticated crop in Africa?
a. yams
b. quinoa
c. taro
d. millet
The site of Dholavira is associated with the __________.
a. Harappan culture
b. Xia Dynasty
c. Kofun period
d. kingdom of Angkor
New laws requiring archaeological work to be done before damaging construction work
created which of the following?
a. a wealth of artifacts for museums
b. a rejection of the New Archaeology
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c. the New Archaeology
d. Cultural Resource Management (CRM) archaeology
The record of global climate fluctuations can be found in the __________.
a. oxygen isotope curve
b. tree rings of the bald cypress
c. oxygen reduction line
d. straight line regression curve
The large earthwork that occupies the core of Cahokia is known as __________.
a. El Grande
b. Monk's Mound
c. Spiro Mound
d. Pueblo Bonito
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Marshall Sahlins described hunter-gatherers as __________.
a. middle stage barbarians
b. the original affluent society
c. broad spectrum foragers
d. evolutionary throw-backs
Excavation of the bison kill at the Olsen-Chubbock site provided conclusive proof that
humans were responsible for the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna.
__________ refers to the use of controlled burning to improve hunting conditions.
a. Fire-starting
b. Fire-stick farming
c. Swidden horticulture
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d. Pyrohusbandry
The Three-Age system divided prehistory into the __________ Ages.
a. Savage, Barbarian, and Civilized
b. Stone, Bronze, and Iron
c. Foraging, Pastoral, and Agrarian
d. Animist, Theistic, and Secular
________ are natural objects that provide information about the environmental context
of past human activity.
a. Artifacts
b. Ecofacts
c. Features
d. Fossils
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What is the most impressive evidence of royalty in Harappan society?
a. the massive palace at Harappa
b. a small steatite sculpture of a"priest-king"from Mohenjo-Daro
c. the"granary"at Menrgarh
d. the lavishly furnished royal tomb at Mohenjo-Daro
Maya sites are often located near __________, which were critical water sources.
a. marshlands
b. piscinas
c. estuaries
d. cenotes
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The earliest evidence for the unification of Egypt under a single ruler is a slab of carved
slate known as the __________.
a. Abydos Slab
b. Narmer Palette
c. Saqqara Tablet
d. Scorpion Chronicle
Carefully standardized bricks and weights in Harappan society speak to __________.
a. one specialized factory next to the great bath
b. proof of a religious ceremony
c. a highly militaristic dictator
d. a highly organized bureaucracy
The site of La Cotte de St. Brelade shows evidence of __________.
a. cannibalism
b. the controlled use of fire
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c. hunting by stampeding animals over a cliff
d. intentional human burial
Which of these is an early domesticated plant in Mesoamerica?
a. tomatoes
b. squash
c. rhubarb
d. cabbage
There are no modern human fossils found in southern Africa.
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What is the oldest known city in the world?
a. Hamourkar
b. Habuba Kebira
c. Uruk
d. Ur
What is the cultural period associated with the Neanderthals?
a. Mousterian
b. Lower Paleolithic
c. Oldowan
d. Middle Paleolithic
Discoveries at __________ demonstrate that people were living in the Brazilian rain
forest at the same time as the Clovis culture in North America.
a. Blackwater Draw
b. Pedra Pintada
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c. Quebrada Tacahuay
d. Monte Verde
The ________ refers to the entire life history of a stone tool, from gathering the raw
material to discard.
a. lithic use cycle
b. method lithique
c. artifact genesis effect
d. chane opratoire
Which of the following is a Middle Stone Age tool industry?
a. Acheullean
b. Aterian
c. Olduwan
d. Osteodontokeratic
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The title of the rule in Linear B tablets is the __________.
a. wanax
b. thorax
c. lorax
d. borax
Chaco Canyon was the site of the construction of spectacular multi-storied structures
known as __________.
a. cliff-dwellings
b. kivas
c. pueblos
d. Great Houses
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This fossil genus was ultimately proven to be a fraud.
a. Australopithecus
b. Eoanthropus
c. Ardipithecus
d. Paranthropus
Which of these is an early Chinese dynasty that dates to between 2,000 B.C. and 500
B.C.?
a. Ming
b. Zhou
c. Qing
d. Tang
The land bridge that connected Asia and North America during periods of low sea level
is called _________.
a. the ALCAN highway
b. Beringia
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c. Wallacea
d. the Aleutian Islands
The earliest farmers in Central and Western Europe are known as the __________
culture.
a. Linear Band Keramik
b. fire-stick
c. Mesolithic
d. Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
The recovery of a hyoid bone from the Kebara site suggests that Neanderthals were
__________.
a. closely related to chimpanzees
b. physically capable of speech
c. fully bipedal
d. incapable of making stone tools
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The Tomb of Ty at Saqqara shows the integral role that __________ played in
managing the economy of the Old Kingdom.
a. farmers
b. priests
c. bureaucrats
d. scribes
A(n) __________ is a domesticated camelid.
a. manioc
b. alpaca
c. quinoa
d. guinea pig
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Most of the early cities in Mesopotamia were either within or on the edge of
__________.
a. rolling upland
b. extensive marshlands
c. desert wasteland
d. grassy savannah
Skeletal evidence from the site of Moula-Guercy suggests that Neanderthals
__________.
a. buried their dead
b. could speak
c. practiced cannibalism
d. hunted Homo erectus
What is the importance of the Olmec to the development of Mesoamerican Pre-history?
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What is micromorphology and how can it help interpret an archaeological site?
What evidence is there for social inequality in Harappan society?
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Describe the city of Tenochtitln.
How do Upper Paleolithic tools differ from the Middle Paleolithic industries?
What is the significance of the Three-Age system?
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What is the importance of the Nabta Playa site?
What happened to the Pleistocene megafauna?
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What characterizes Harappan cities?
How can seriation be used to develop a relative chronology of an artifact type?
What can human osteology tell us about the ancient world?
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What evidence is there of open air Upper Paleolithic sites?
What is the genetic relationship of Neanderthals to modern humans?
What is K. R. Fladmark's alternative to migration to North America through an ice-free
corridor?
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Discuss the various arguments about how Minoan and Mycenaean societies interacted
on the political level.

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