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Clay vessels that are built up with a lump of clay placed over the top of a convex shape.
a. clay
b. mold
c. coil
d. temper
Archaeologists are not
a. romantic adventurers.
b. scientists.
c. anthropologists.
d. critical thinkers.
The continuum formed between the material and spiritual worlds is represented by
a. the "landscape of memory."
b. ancestors.
c. shamans.
d. mountains.
A sinodont hallmark would NOT include
a. incisor shoveling.
b. double-shoveling.
c. triple-shoveling.
d. molar shoveling.
Who wrote On the Origin of Species and caused a complete rethinking of human
origins?
a. Alfred Wallace
b. Charles Darwin
c. Bishop Ussher
d. Gregor Mendel
Many archaeologists study historical buildings, but which type would study
Victorian-period factories?
a. historical archaeologists
b. religious archaeologists
c. industrial archaeologists
d. zooarchaeologists
The Babylonian King Hammurabi is best known for developing the first written
a. alphabet.
b. law code.
c. topographical map.
d. sheet music.
Along with factionalism, a powerful catalyst of the emergence of many early states.
a. bartering
b. emerging competition
c. redistribution
d. myths
When the Mayan ruler Pacal died, he was buried beneath a
a. mountain.
b. pyramid.
c. palace.
d. river.
He excavated the ancient city mounds of Nineveh and Nimrud.
a. Archbishop James Ussher
b. Charles Darwin
c. Austen Henry Layard
d. Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Clovis people are best known for
a. occasional mammoth and bison hunts on the North American plains.
b. bird trapping in the South American jungles.
c. river damming along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
d. complicated, geometric artistic styles.
Archaeology depends on informed amateur archaeologists who
a. volunteer on excavations.
b. volunteer in museums.
c. volunteer in laboratories.
d. all of the above
It is thought that the southern fringes of Africa's Sahara Desert expanded dramatically
during periods of
a. cold.
b. warmth.
c. flood.
d. drought.
Means "wise person."
a. Homo erectus
b. Homo neandertalensis
c. Homo sapiens
d. Homo sapiens sapiens
The Cro-Magnons' primary stone tool-making objective was to produce
a. fire.
b. blades.
c. axes.
d. clothing.
Acheulian sites at Ambrona and Torralba in central Spain revealed remains of
dismembered
a. elephants.
b. bears.
c. whales.
d. deer.
The earliest known wood artifacts dated to 400,000 years ago and were discovered in a
coal mine in
a. Africa.
b. Germany.
c. Iraq.
d. Asia.
All archaeologists are concerned with careful stewardship of the
a. conservation of artifacts.
b. archaeological sites.
c. human past.
d. pre-historical past.
Teotihuacn was a unique city, covering at least 21 square kilometers, and a major place
of
a. trade.
b. warfare.
c. food production.
d. pilgrimage.
Most archaeologists agree that urban life and pre-industrial civilization came
into existence
a. gradually.
b. during a period of social and economic stability.
c. as a direct result of the introduction of irrigation technology.
d. as a consequence of all of the above factors.
Which of the following is true of the fossil record between 7 and 1 million years ago?
a. It is extremely thin.
b. Most fossil evidence is in the form of foot and hand bones.
c. Most fossils are found in East African caves.
d. Not many hominin forms existed during this time.
The spread of food production throughout the world took only about
a. 14,000 years.
b. 12,000 years.
c. 10,000 years.
d. 8,000 years.
After 3000 B.C., every city-state came to depend on a "world economic system." Why?
a. political stability
b. social control
c. the invention of banking
d. survival
In many farming societies, the earth is symbolically considered
a. the sacred place.
b. female.
c. the provider.
d. a spirit being.
Everyone agrees that the earliest farmers in the world flourished in
a. southeastern Asia.
b. the Americas.
c. southwestern Asia.
d. Europe.
The Inka
a. were organized into kin groups called ayllu.
b. originally settled in the Upper Moche Valley, from where they spread to the
highlands.
c. made Machu Picchu their capital.
d. all of the above
The lump of stone made from the raw materials used by the stoneworker in producing
blades.
a. flake
b. core
c. block
d. rock
According to the text, who invented agriculture?
a. sub-Saharans
b. Europeans
c. Americans
d. no one
Permits the dating of individual seeds, root fragments, or maize cobs.
a. dendrochronology
b. potassium-argon dating
c. flotation
d. accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating
The only means of chronometrically dating the earliest archaeological sites.
a. accelerator mass spectrometry
b. dendrochronology
c. potassium-argon dating
d. thermoluminescence dating
The name of Eugene Dubois' find, which means "ape-human which stood upright."
a. Homo sapiens
b. Homo habilis
c. Pithecanthropus erectus
d. Australopithecus africanus
