Maya pyramids were constructed during a single building episode.
For logistical reasons, all the materials used to build Stonehenge came from a distance
of no more than three kilometers.
Early modern humans were able to cross over to Australia on the Wallacea land bridge
between 53,000″60,000 years ago.
The ratio of Carbon-14 to nonradioactive carbon is a global constant.
An alternative to the ice-free corridor route into North America is a coastal migration
route.
The mounds in the Ohio River Valley were built by a lost race known as the
Moundbuilders.
Stonehenge was built relatively rapidly, over the span of 100 years.
At both Shabik”eschee Village and the SU site, unusual structures were found that
appear to have played a communal function.
The Fertile Crescent is a ribbon of Mediterranean climate that arcs across the Middle
East.
Mesopotamia was bounded by the Nile and the Euphrates Rivers.
Stonehenge, Pueblo Bonito, Cahokia, and Great Zimbabwe were what Elman Service
would describe as chiefdoms.
The earliest farming communities in the Middle East are called Linear Band Keramik
(LBK).
Cahokia was the largest settlement of the Mississippian Period.
Fire-stick farming refers to the use of controlled burning to clear area for crops.
Pueblo Grande is the largest Great House in Chaco Canyon.
The resistance that the Inca were able to mount against the Spanish invaders points to
the resilience of an empire built around a divine ruler.
Acheulian tools are associated with the Australopithecines.
The First and Second Dynasty royal tombs at Abydos are simple brick chambers.
The handaxe is the characteristic tool of the Eurasian Acheulian.
The growth of Mesopotamian cities was based on the production of agricultural surplus.
The site of Boxgrove, England is among the youngest-known Mousterian sites in
Europe.
Genetic evidence shows that gorillas have the greatest similarity to humans of all the
great apes.
Bone tools, such as harpoons, have been found on Middle Paleolithic sites in England.
Teotihuacn was the capital of the Aztec Empire.
In central Africa, two critical cerealsquinoa and sorghumwere domesticated.
Stonehenge was constructed by a state-level society.
Homo habilis is the first primate with a brain size over 500 cc.
Soft tissue does not preserve well at Andean archaeological sites.
The Minoans had a form of social organization that was complex without the
emergence of urban centers.
Pagos are raised agriculture beds built in the swamps surrounding Tenochtitln.
The reigns of Maya rulers were deciphered based on two signs, known as the
“toothache sign” and the “upended frog” sign.
The site of Chavn de Huntar represents a major turning point in Andean social
complexity.
Isotope analysis of bone chemistry can determine the role of maize in the diet.
Evolutionary archaeology, ironically, rejects the theory of evolution as having any
application to modern archaeology.
Even when rulers were dead, their mummified bodies exerted power.
Middle Stone Age tool industries included Gravettian and Solutrean.
One aspect of Maya material culture that is largely invisible in the archaeological
record is woven cloth, because it is perishable.
According to this model, the Hopewell culture earthworks served as the symbolic and
ceremonial core of a dispersed settlement pattern.
a. agency theory
b. vacant center pattern
c. central place theory
d. optimal foraging theory
The archaeological period of the earliest modern humans in Africa is referred to as the
__________.
a. Middle Stone Age
b. Middle Paleolithic
c. Acheulian
d. Old Stone Age
Which of the following statements describes the Huaca del Sol?
a. It was built of stone cut bricks.
b. It had sacrificial victims buried in it.
c. It was partly destroyed by the Spanish looking for gold.
d. It is found in the highlands of the Andes.
The spectacular preservation at this preagricultural site in the Sahara produced many
organic items, including a layer of preserved animal dung.
a. Nabta Playa
b. Uan Afuda
c. Wanlek
d. Kuk Swamp
Discuss the evidence for the earliest use of tools at the Gona site in Africa.
Which of the following best characterizes the site of Cahokia?
a. It was a fortified city-state.
b. It incorporated a series of dispersed living areas around a ceremonial core.
c. It was a vacant center.
d. It was a teeming metropolis.
One source of evidence of the diet of past cultures is the study of fecal remains, also
known as __________.
a. coprolites
b. fulgerites
c. isotope analysis
d. crotovina
__________ are patches nurtured by mist from coastal fog in which dense vegetation
grows.
a. Sunis
b. Punas
c. Llomas
d. Yungas
The first Homo erectus fossils found on the island of Java, were found by__________.
a. Mary Leakey
b. Raymond Dart
c. Donald Johanson
d. Eugene Dubois
What is the study of the processes that affect organic remains after death?
a. paleoecology
b. zooarchaeology
c. necromodification
d. taphonomy
This monumental structure was at the center of both physical and spiritual world of the
Aztec.
a. Templo Mayor
b. Pyramid of the Sun
c. Pyramid of Aztln
d. Pyramid of the Moon
The oldest known bone harpoons have been found at the Middle Stone Age site of
__________.
a. Kebara Cave, Israel
b. Katanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
c. Klasies River Mouth, S. Africa
d. Blombos Cave, S. Africa
Pueblo Bonito Functioned as both an elite residence and a __________.
a. temporary hunting camp
b. ceremonial center
c. fortress
d. long-distance trade depot
________ refers to the evolutionary history of a species.
a. Cladistics
b. Phylogeny
c. Ontogeny
d. Taxonomy
AMS dates of beans at Guitarrero Cave indicate that they were domesticated
__________.
a. at the same time as llamas
b. 10,000 years ago
c. 4, 300 years ago
d. well after highland cities had been established
Genetic research indicates that this plant species was domesticated in New Guinea.
a. millet
b. potatoes
c. yams
d. maize
This epic tale, set in the Uruk period, is known from cuneiform tablets recovered from
Mesopotamia.
a. the Bible
b. Gilgamesh
c. the Odyssey
d. the Iliad
The collapse of the Maya cities was partially due to __________.
a. slavery
b. ecological degradation
c. population decline
d. conquest
The mythical homeland of the Aztecs is known as __________.
a. La Tisa
b. Otumba
c. Teotihuacn
d. Aztln
Which of these towns may have been destroyed by a volcanic eruption?
a. Santorini
b. Knossos
c. Akritiri
d. Venice
A(n) ________ is the biological term for a period when there is a rapid increase in the
number of species in a single lineage.
a. diaspora
b. exodus
c. dispersal
d. radiation
The Harappan script is known mostly from which of the following?
a. small stone seals used to mark vessels and bundles
b. paintings on tomb walls
c. cylinder seals for authenticating documents
d. fired clay tablets
Which of the following were the largest Harappan cities?
a. Akrotiri and Thera
b. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
c. Knossos and Mycenae
d. Rizhao and Yanshi
The goal of vertical excavation is to __________.
a. collect as many artifacts as possible
b. dig as deeply as possible
c. expose the sequence of occupation at a site
d. obey the law of superposition
What is the earliest-known painted cave (ca. 38,000″33,000 years old)?
a. Qafzeh, Israel
b. Lascaux, France
c. Altamira, Spain
d Chauvet, France
Which of the following represents the first clear evidence for the use of excavation to
recover and explore the past?
a. the exploration of a mound by Thomas Jefferson
b. the recovery of thunderstones by Antoine de Jussieuʺ ʺ
c. an emblem book written by Johannes Sambucus
d. John Frere s report on a Paleolithic site at Hoxne, England ʹ
________ focuses on the way archaeologists study and represent gender in the
archaeological record, as well as gender biases of the investigator.
a. Feminist archaeology
b. Gynocentric archaeology
c. Masculinist archaeology
d. Postprocessual archaeology
(REMEMBER:
What taxon includes all members of the human lineage after it split with the
chimpanzees?
a. hominin
b. prosimian
c. anthropoid
d. hominoid
Which of the following statements characterizes relative dating techniques?
a. They allow archaeologists to assign a range of calendar years to artifacts and
deposits.
b. They can be expressed on a number of different time scales.
c. They include dendrochronology.
d. They include seriation.
What important human trait does Richard Klein suggest accounts for the Upper
Paleolithic art and material culture?
a. bipedalism
b. religion
c. dexterity
d. language
What is the Solutrean hypothesis?
How has systems theory been applied to archaeology?
How did agriculture develop in eastern North America?
What was the Moche state?
What did Ian Hodder mean when he said that archaeology begins at the edge of the ʺ
trowel ? ʺ
What is the goal of archaeological recording and what are some of the recording
methods employed by archaeologists?
What was the function of Pueblo Bonito?
What is the difference between induction and deduction?
What was Stonehenge?
How have archaeologists interpreted Chaco Canyon?
What was Teotihuacn?
What was Graham Clark s contribution to scientific archaeology? ʹ
What was the Jomon?
What was the Linear Band Keramik culture?
How did the Neanderthal dispose of their dead?
What is the Early Arrival Model for migration into the Americas?
How can genetics be used to calculate the human phylogeny?
What role can geophysics play in archaeological research?
What were the three major regions where plants were indigenously domesticated in
Africa?
Archaeologically what is the major technology that distinguishes the Early Neolithic
and Natufian?