Although ice core analysis suggests that the next ice age should be 15,000 years in the
future, _________ appears to be having an effect on the normal cycle of the earth’s
temperature
a) the tilt of the earth
b) human activity
c) solar flares
d) continental drift
e) changes in the orbit of the earth
Influenced by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, Edward Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan
argued that human societies evolved through stages, from
a) savagery to barbarism to civilization.
b) barbarism to agriculturalism to civilization
c) australopithecines to Homo erectus to Homo sapiens
d) hunter to gatherer to agriculturalist
e) savagery to peasantry to capitalist
The idea that European Megaliths were used by elders and community leaders to
manipulate the members of society into the continued recognition of their social status
is an example of a
a) Postprocessual explanation
b) Functional-processual explanation
c) Marxist explanation
d) Migrationist or Diffusionist explanation
e) New Archaeology explanation
After the process of survey, excavation, recording, mapping, and post-excavation
analysis, all these efforts are largely wasted unless
a) an educational film is made
b) the results are published
c) a video or film is made
d) a museum is founded
e) a very, very large party is held
Major figures in CRM in the United States are SHPOs. SHPO stands for
a) Sites of Historic Protection Officer
b) State Historic Preservation Officer
c) Site Health and Policing Officer
d) State Historic Police Official
e) Site Historic Protection Official
Unlike sex, which is biologically determined, __________ is a social construct
involving the roles of individuals in society
a) matrilineal descent
b) sedentism
c) DNA
d) natural selection
e) gender
The practice of CRM is often known as
a) environmental archaeology
b) geoarchaeology
c) applied archaeology
d) colonial archaeology
e) pseudoarchaeology
In order to obtain absolute dates from volcanic material in very early contexts (over 1
million years ago), you would probably choose to use
a) varves
b) dendrochronology
c) uranium-series dating
d) potassium-argon dating
e) radiocarbon dating
Exceptional preservation of “tzi,” or the “Iceman,” found in the Alps in 1991, allowed
documentation of his health, past injuries, tattoos, and diet. Radiocarbon dates suggest
he lived at about __________
a) 300 bc
b) 300 ad
c) 3300 bc
d) 10,000 bc
e) 13,000 bc
A state-level society is usually described as consisting of
a) more than 20,000 people
b) 5,000 to 20,000 people
c) up to a few 100 people
d) less than 100 people
e) at least over 200,000 people
A group claiming descent from a common ancestor is called a
a) lineage
b) polity
c) ethnicity
d) cult
e) band
The Rosetta Stone was found to be the key to
a) deciphering Aramaic
b) deciphering ancient Hebrew
c) deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
d) deciphering Linear A
e) deciphering ancient Greek
For archaeologists trying to understand social ranking, the individual burial of a child
with rich burial goods and a well-built funerary monument would suggest that
a) there may have been a system of hereditary ranking.
b) there may have been an egalitarian system with no ranking
c) the child had achieved a high social status through his or her own actions
d) there was a high rate of infant mortality
e) none of the above
Although film is still generally used in air photography in the last few years
___________ have become sufficiently good to be used by airborne archaeologists
a) digital sensors
b) video recordings
c) cameras with a resolution of less than 10 megapixels
d) none of the above
e) all of the above
While discovering how a society viewed itself and its territories may seem like an
impossible task, it is important to remember that most state societies ________, which
helps us to identify primary centers
a) are exactly alike
b) did not produce monumental architecture
c) are still in existence today
d) are located on exactly the same spots as major modern cities
e) produced written records
The Great Temple of Tenochtitln was destroyed by
a) an earthquake
b) a flood
c) architectural instability
d) the conquistadores
e) the invading Inca
A key breakthrough in the use of scientific methods to date archaeological remains was
Willard Libby’s 1949 invention of
a) neutron activation analysis
b) dendrochronology
c) radiocarbon dating
d) potassium-argon dating
e) trace-element analysis
The idea of a lost continent of Atlantis originally came from a story written by
a) Plato
b) Homer
c) Chaucer
d) Shakespeare
e) Ignatius Donnelly