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As early as 8000 B.C., Mesopotamian villagers were carrying tokens made of
a. clay.
b. bronze.
c. gold.
d. wood.
The rulers of Harappa and Mohenjodaro lived in this part of the city.
a. center
b. citadel
c. tenements
d. presidio
China was unified in 221 B.C. by the emperor
a. Zhang.
b. Shihuangdi.
c. Jayavarman.
d. Shiva.
As close to total excavation as archaeology can get.
a. random excavation
b. horizontal excavation
c. vertical excavation
d. soil marks
The law of association allows that objects in direct contact
a. must be related to each other in time and space.
b. may or may not be related to each other in time or space.
c. must be related to each other only in the time axis.
d. requires an instant analysis to determine spatial-temporal association.
Cereal agriculture came to Africa within the last
a. 20,000 years.
b. 10,000 years.
c. 8,000 years.
d. 3,000 years.
The Neanderthals vanished by
a. 30,000 years ago.
b. 20,000 years ago.
c. 10,000 years ago.
d. 5,000 years ago.
Both Charles Darwin and biologist Stephen Jay Gould hypothesized that
a. apes migrated out of Africa and became human.
b. Homo sapiens sapiens migrated out of Africa.
c. individual differences are not so great among humans.
d. humans are no more intelligent than apes.
The poorest residents of Harappa and Mohenjodaro lived in this part of the city.
a. center
b. citadel
c. tenements
d. presidio
The earliest pottery was fired over these, covered with fast burning wood ash.
a. closed hearth
b. open hearth
c. air-tight ovens
d. sunlight
On the Origin of Species was written by
a. Archbishop James Ussher.
b. Charles Darwin.
c. Jacques Boucher de Perthes.
d. Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
This type of locomotion provides an excellent power thrust for jumping into a tree.
a. bipedalism
b. quadrupedalism
c. knuckle walking
d. slithering
What type of archaeology is the dominant activity in North America?
a. historical archaeology
b. applied archaeology
c. paleoarchaeology
d. cultural resource management
This city was competing with Cuicuilco for leadership over the Valley of Mexico until
Cuicuilco was completely destroyed by an erupting volcano.
a. Teotihuacn
b. Copan
c. Monte Alban
d. Oaxaca
What factors lay at the center of the Mayan collapse?
a. economic
b. political
c. religious
d. ecological
Coined the phrase "agricultural revolution" and "urban revolution."
a. Mary Leakey
b. Vere Gordon Childe
c. Edward Tylor
d. Brian Fagan
Which of the following is NOT one of the three possible uses for Oldowan stone tools?
a. butchering and meat cutting
b. sawing and scraping wood
c. cutting soft plant matter
d. digging and manipulating soil
The most important archaeological sites are
a. kill sites.
b. living sites.
c. ceremonial sites.
d. burial sites.
All projectile points in North America are ultimately derived from the ancient
a. Donner point.
b. Clovis point.
c. Aleutian point.
d. Siberian point.
These types of artifacts are defined by decoration or form, but are time markers.
a. functional
b. artistic
c. chronological
d. decorative
Identifying the characteristic properties of the distinctive raw materials used to fashion
an artifact refers to
a. sourcing.
b. character studies.
c. petrology.
d. isotropic composition.
Agriculture is a/n
a. seasonal activity.
b. year-round activity.
c. easy activity.
d. natural activity.
Much of the trade around the Mezhirich area may have been
a. ceremonial.
b. political.
c. designed to amass wealth.
d. non-luxurious goods.
Which is true of Cro-Magnons?
a. strongly built
b. large-headed
c. appearance contrasts dramatically with Neanderthals
d. all of the above
Three major anatomical changes took place during the 2.5 million years
between Australopithecus afarensis and the emergence of Homo erectus some 1.6
million years ago. Which of the following changes is NOT one of the three
changes mentioned in the text?
a. Brain size increased from about 450 cc in Australopithecus afarensis to 1000 cc
in Homo erectus.
b. There was an increase in sexual dimorphism.
c. There were modifications of the hips for bipedal locomotion.
d. There were modifications of the limbs for bipedal locomotion.
Some of the earliest Olmec settlement comes from a platform at
a. Chichn Itz.
b. Tula.
c. San Lorenzo.
d. Copan.
A particular factor that helped limit population growth.
a. disease
b. famine
c. water supplies
d. available food
Aerial photography, satellite imaging, and ground-penetrating radar are examples of
a. publication.
b. excavation.
c. seriation.
d. remote sensing.
What type of context occurs when a group allows the dead to remain unburied until the
corpse has decomposed, then buries the bones in a bundle in a communal burial
chamber?
a. primary context
b. secondary context
c. tertiary context
d. quaternary context
The densest hunter-gatherer populations congregated in river valleys and
a. coastlines.
b. lakeshores.
c. mixed-conifer forests.
d. alpine forests.
What term relates to food remains, such as animal bones, seeds, and other finds, which
throw light on human activities?
a. artifacts
b. ecofacts
c. middens
d. tailings
There is a strong tradition of amateur scholarship in archaeology, especially in
a. Europe.
b. the U.S.
c. Africa.
d. Mexico.
As societies become more complex, religious authority can become
a. mythical.
b. standardized.
c. sanctified.
d. predictable.
