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After about 16,000 years ago, Cro-Magnons began hunting
a. doves, finches, and robins.
b. buffalo and wild cattle.
c. whales and narwhales.
d. salmon, trout, perch, and eels.
The quiet philanthropy of volunteers has
a. endowed professorships.
b. paid for excavations.
c. supported students.
d. all of the above
What did the Cro-Magnon artists use for their canvas?
a. ivory tusks
b. wood plates
c. animal skins
d. cave walls
The North American Southwest is a classic example of a
a. horizon.
b. region.
c. phase.
d. culture area.
From Neanderthal bone, scientists were able to extract
a. RNA.
b. DNA.
c. mitochondrial DNA.
d. chromosomes.
An undergraduate degree in archaeology qualifies you to work
a. as a faculty member at a research university.
b. in private and government sectors.
c. at most larger companies.
d. as a gofer at excavations and digs.
Information on religious beliefs as well as social ranking can be provided by
a. paintings.
b. artifacts.
c. burials.
d. all of the above
Investigators found no traces of this kind of food in Tollund Man's stomach.
a. barley
b. insect
c. meat
d. grasses
At Mezhirich on the Dnieper River, dome-shaped houses were made of
a. ice blocks.
b. mammoth bones.
c. large pine timbers.
d. frozen ground.
NOT one of the three artifact types.
a. descriptive
b. ecclesiastical
c. chronological
d. functional
Who did NOT form the bulk of Uruk's population?
a. farmers
b. sailors
c. slaves
d. metalworkers
This city straddled 3 hills, had at least 15 residential subdivisions, and its population
rose to a peak of about 30,000 between 200 and 350 B.C.
a. Teotihuacn
b. Cuicuilco
c. Monte Alban
d. Oaxaca
The law of superposition comes from what subdiscipline?
a. anthropology
b. geography
c. stratigraphic zoology
d. stratigraphic geology
Louis and Mary Leakey named this hominin "handy person."
a. Homo sapien
b. Homo habilis
c. Homo rudolfensis
d. Homo erectus
The most prestigious metal to the Shang.
a. gold
b. silver
c. bronze
d. platinum
Evidence for Homo erectus butchery and perhaps big-game hunting comes from
a. Torralba and Ambrona.
b. Swartkrans.
c. Olduvai Gorge.
d. Terra Amata.
What process requires knowledge of culture history, environment, and lifeway data?
a. culture process
b. data acquisition
c. analysis
d. interpretation
In Aztec civilization, women produced cloth, which served as a primary way of
organizing the ebb and flow of goods and services, revealing its importance
a. to social status.
b. to Aztec economy.
c. as currency.
d. as an everyday activity.
Many cave paintings are vanishing because of
a. natural causes.
b. excess tourism.
c. vandalism.
d. all of the above
Subterranean ceremonial room found in the middle of Ancestral Pueblo settlements.
a. pit-house
b. kiva
c. tepee
d. log-house
How many state-organized societies do archaeologists believe need to be unearthed?
a. none
b. 1
c. 2
d. unknown
Method(s) people use to make their living or to acquire their food is
a. an economic system.
b. subsistence.
c. hunting and gathering.
d. a cultural ecological model.
By at least 4500 B.C., about how much of the Tehuacno diet consisted of
tropical grasses and other plants?
a. 10%
b. 40%
c. 75%
d. 90%
The manufacture of stone tools is this type of technology.
a. reductive
b. physical
c. additive
d. environmental
Split inheritance
a. was practiced by Chimu rulers.
b. played a major role in Inka civilization.
c. stated that each ruler inherited no material possessions to finance his reign.
d. all of the above
Which of the following is a characteristic of the fossil named Sahelanthropus
tchadensis?
a. From the back, it looks like a hominin from about 1.75 mya.
b. From the front, it appears to be a chimpanzee.
c. It has dated to between 8 and 9 million years old.
d. The base of the skull suggests it walked upright.
Most Shang metal works are
a. vessels for food and drink.
b. weapons.
c. musical instruments.
d. chariot fittings.
The Shang fell at the hands of the neighboring
a. Huang.
b. Xia.
c. Zhou.
d. Han.
Many projects are carried out under fast-moving
a. academic projects.
b. CRM projects.
c. government projects.
d. private projects.
After 2334 B.C., Sumerian civilizations became part of a larger kingdom based on
a. astrology.
b. Mesopotamia.
c. Cairo.
d. Babylon.
The largest Mesa Verde settlement.
a. Cliff Palace
b. Chaco Canyon
c. Montezuma Castle
d. Tuzigoot
Archaeologists like Kent Flannery see the state as a very complicated
a. "working" system.
b. "living" system.
c. city.
d. economic system.
