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The story of humanity begins deep in geological time, during the later part of the
Cenozoic erathe age of
a. humanity.
b. the dinosaurs.
c. enlightenment.
d. mammals.
An education in archaeology should begin as being
a. somewhat specialized.
b. broadly-based.
c. highly specialized.
d. individualized.
The dating technique used on bone, wood, and other organic materials up to 40,000
years old.
a. accelerator mass spectrometry
b. radiocarbon dating
c. potassium-argon dating
d. half-life
Social inequality has been a feature of human life since the appearance of
a. farming.
b. civilization.
c. cities.
d. hunting.
Reconstruction of ancient stone tool manufacture by refitting flakes to the core.
a. debitage
b. refitting
c. retooling
d. reverse engineering
Early Southwesterners gathered many plants including all but which of the following?
a. yucca seeds
b. cacti
c. potatoes
d. sunflower seeds
The development of generalizations about a research problem based on
numerous specific observations.
a. normative view of culture
b. inductive reasoning
c. descriptive
d. scientific
The spectacular discoveries made by archaeologists are
a. common occurrences.
b. few and far between.
c. a unique reward.
d. a group effort.
Calcite and living organisms on cave walls will fluoresce when exposed to
a. ultraviolet light.
b. black and white photography.
c. rice paper.
d. infrared light.
Known to archaeologists as the Acropolis.
a. Monte Alban
b. Copn
c. Nakbe
d. Cerros
Surveying a tool-scatter on a parcel of land or excavating a large-scale archaeological
site are both forms of
a. data acquisition.
b. analysis.
c. research design.
d. interpretation.
The social organization of state-organized societies is what archaeologists refer to as
a. social stratification.
b. social ranking.
c. social inequality.
d. social pattern.
Cultural units represented by separate levels of the same site, always within a
well-defined chronological span.
a. horizons
b. traditions
c. phases
d. components
The best way to think about this is as a bush with many branches and clusters of
twigs expanding from a single trunk.
a. multilinear cultural evolution
b. cultural ecology
c. postprocessual archaeology
d. processual archaeology
The capital city of the Inka was
a. Cuzco.
b. Machu Picchu.
c. Curaca.
d. Quechua.
This emperor's burial chamber is said to contain rivers of mercury that flow to the
ocean, paintings of the constellations on the ceiling, and scale models of palaces and
pavilions.
a. Zhang
b. Shihuangdi
c. Jayavarman
d. Shiva
Modern day archaeology is often fascinating and sometimes conducted in remote lands.
The discipline is also
a. highly technical.
b. somewhat technical.
c. analytical.
d. monotonous.
We are members of this order with most other tree-loving placental mammals.
a. anthropoids
b. primates
c. prosimians
d. pongids
An Ice Age landmass made up of New Guinea, Australia, and the now flooded
shelf between them.
a. Sunda
b. Sahul
c. Wallacea
d. Pangea
The only wealth in the highland kingdom.
a. gold
b. taxable labor
c. trade
d. looting
Establishes chronological relationships between sites and cultures.
a. relative chronology
b. chronometric dating
c. relative dating
d. actual chronology
Identified by the space shuttle Columbia under the Sahara Desert.
a. ancient river courses
b. Atlantis
c. ancient trade routes
d. an ancient city
The study of the processes by which human societies changed in the past.
a. general systems theory
b. cultural ecology
c. postprocessual archaeology
d. processual archaeology
Tree-ring dating is also known as
a. dendrochronology
b. obsidian hydration
c. cross-dating
d. uranium series dating
Many of the Harappan seals depict cattle, which may be a symbol of
a. Shiva.
b. Indra.
c. Soma.
d. Devi.
The most important food crop in the Americas today.
a. tomato
b. maize
c. peanut
d. wheat
In a real sense, technology defines
a. history.
b. prehistory.
c. modernity.
d. invention.
Much of what we know about early Homo sapiens comes from the long term
inhabitants of Europe and Eurasia,
a. Homo erectus.
b. Homo neanderthalensis.
c. Homo habilis.
d. Homo sapiens sapiens.
Most academic archaeology in American universities is NOT carried out in
a. Europe.
b. Mesoamerica.
c. the Andes.
d. North America.
Forests covered much of Europe only this many years after the retreat of
the Scandinavian ice sheet.
a. 1,000
b. 3,000
c. 5,000
d. 7,000
In a state, who provides security for the estate's dependents?
a. the dependents themselves
b. the police force
c. the landowning class and the estate
d. the natural environment
A Mesopotamian ziggurat would be found at this kind of site.
a. kill site
b. living site
c. ceremonial site
d. burial site
DNA comparisons between modern humans and Neanderthal sequences differ by
a. 55 base pairs.
b. 27 or 28 base pairs.
c. 8 base pairs.
d. 1 base pair.
A small camp flourished at this bubbling spring by 10,500 B.C., and its walls were
collapsed by the blast of trumpets.
a. Jarmo
b. Jericho
c. Netiv Hagdud
d. Abu Hureyra
The Awash region of Ethiopia is home to the earliest known east African hominin, a 5
million year old Australopithecine named
a. Ardipithecus ramidus.
b. Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
c. Australopithecus africanus.
d. Australopithecus robustus.
