1
Which best defines the concept of culture history?
(A)
Cultural anthropologists have built up a picture of the past through time.
(B)
The record of the human past described and classified in a context of time and space.
(C)
This process is the secondary stage to any archaeological investigation.
(D)
Culture history represents a stratigraphic survey.
2
What term relates to food remains, such as animal bones, seeds, and other finds, that offer
insight into human activities of the past?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
The answer is ecofacts.
3
Context is the
(A)
two-dimensional measurement of an artifact.
(B)
three-dimensional location of an artifact.
(C)
exact position of a find in time and space.
(D)
cultural model necessary for understanding the usefulness of an artifact.
The answer is exact position of a find in time and space.
4
What type of technology did archaeologist Payson Sheets use to locate houses buried
underneath the ash at Cerén in El Salvador?
(A)
subsurface radar
(B)
dendochronology
(C)
excavation
(D)
radiocarbon dating
The answer is subsurface radar.
5
Which fundamental principle of archaeology comes from stratigraphic geology?
(A)
association
space.
(B)
time and space
(C)
secondary context
(D)
superposition
6
When a group leaves the dead unburied until the corpse has decomposed, then buries the
remaining bones in a communal burial chamber, the context is
(A)
primary.
(B)
secondary.
(C)
tertiary.
(D)
quaternary.
Feedback:
The answer is secondary.
7
Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Cerén were all preserved because of
(A)
sand drift.
(B)
water.
(C)
ice.
(D)
volcanic ash.
Feedback:
The answer is volcanic ash.
8
Name the three important goals of archaeological research. Of these, which do you think is
the most important?
Answer:
9
List the five general stages of archaeological research. Of these, which is an archaeologist’s
primary ethical responsibility?
Answer:
10
Explain culture history. How is it important to our understanding of the past? What were its
failings? What do we do now to improve on that process?
Answer:
11
Define subsistence. What types of subsistence activities might be discovered by
archaeologists in dry conditions? What can subsistence activities tell us about the society?
Answer:
12
Changes caused by humans and those naturally occurring in an archaeological site are
known as
Feedback:
The answer is superposition.
(A)
cultural and environmental processes.
(B)
societal and climatic processes.
(C)
transformation processes.
(D)
temporal processes.
13
All members of the family Hominidae are
(A)
Homo sapiens.
(B)
Hominins.
(C)
Australopithecus.
(D)
Neanderthals.
The answer is Hominins.
14
What is the most important part of any archaeological project, large or small?
(A)
data acquisition
(B)
analysis
(C)
research design
(D)
interpretation
The answer is research design.
15
Tollund Man was a human sacrifice of the early
(A)
Protestant era.
(B)
Christian era.
(C)
Minoan era.
(D)
Jewish era.
The answer is Christian era.
16
What definitive proof did Jesse Figgins have for the habitation of North America as early as
10,000 years ago?
(A)
pottery
(B)
a projectile point
(C)
baskets
The answer is transformation processes.
(D)
written records
17
Anthropologists Thomas Blackburn and Travis Hudson were able to build a replica of a
Chumash canoe thanks to a lifetime of careful data collection by
(A)
John Harrington.
(B)
William Blackmore.
(C)
Henry Beasley.
(D)
Sir Edward Taylor.
The answer is John Harrington.
18
Which is the village site by the Euphrates River known for botanical evidence that points to
its agricultural origins?
(A)
Pompeii
(B)
Lake Turkana
(C)
Abu Hureyra
(D)
Isamu Pati
The answer is Abu Hureyra.
19
All of the following are examples of transformation processes EXCEPT
(A)
flooding
(B)
windblown sand
(C)
war
(D)
agriculture
The answer is agriculture.
20
The archaeological record is
(A)
perishable and vanishing daily.
(B)
sustainable.
(C)
archived in the Museum of London.
(D)
ever-changing.
The answer is a projectile point.
21
Which is the Inka cemetery near Lima, Peru, famous for its mummy burials?
(A)
Ozette
(B)
Nevado Ampato
(C)
Mimbres
(D)
Puruchucho-Huaquerones
Feedback:
The answer is Puruchucho-Huaquerones
22
Which city in the Valley of Mexico was a trading center for the Mesoamerican world?
(A)
Lima
(B)
Cuzco
(C)
Teotihuacán
(D)
Tuzigoot
The answer is Teotihuacán.
23
Which of the following chronicles the correct order for the process of archaeological
research?
(A)
discovery, research design, analysis, data collection, publication, interpretation
(B)
discovery, research design, data collection, publication, analysis, interpretation
(C)
research design, discovery, analysis, data collection, publication, interpretation
(D)
discovery, research design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, publication
publication.
24
What process requires knowledge of culture history, environment, and lifeway data?
(A)
culture process
(B)
data acquisition
(C)
analysis
(D)
interpretation
Feedback:
The answer is culture process.
25
Describe the law of association in archaeology. How can this principle be used to better
understand an archaeological site?
Feedback:
The answer is perishable and vanishing daily.