Archaeological finds such as oars, boats, and fishing spears at the waterlogged sites of
Tianluoshan and Hemudu demonstrate the importance of ________ resources to the
Neolithic cultures of the Yangzi River Valley.
a) military
b) megafaunal
c) metallurgical
d) aquatic
e) monetary
The collapse of the Classic Maya:
a) did not happen suddenly
b) occurred during a period known as the Terminal Classic
c) caused an estimated 5 million people to leave the Maya lowlands
d) may have been caused by overpopulation and strain on the environment
e) all of the above
The Maya polities of the northern Yucatn:
a) weathered the Maya collapse of the great southern Maya cities and grew into major
centers in their own right
b) collapsed before the Maya kingdoms of the southern lowlands, pushing refugees
south
c) never grew to be monumental in scale nor developed much in the way of architecture
d) were actually colonies established by the lords of Teotihuacn
e) were destroyed by a large earthquake at the end of the Preclassic period
The appearance in different locations of techniques used to make and decorate _______
are often studied by researchers interested in the Malayo-Polynesian dispersal into
southeast Asia and the Pacific.
a) pottery
b) copper axes
c) bark manuscripts
d) ship sails
e) gold jewelry
The site of Ban Chiang, which was occupied by rice farmers by about 1600 bc, is
located in the Mekong Valley in what is now:
a) China
b) Mongolia
c) Vietnam
d) Hong Kong
e) Thailand
In Sir Arthur Evans’s terminology, the people and culture that built the palace of
Knossos on the island of Crete were the:
a) Mycenaean
b) Atlanteans
c) Minoans
d) Cypriots
e) Cretans
In current knowledge, the Acheulean technological tradition is was first used by:
a) Homo sapiens
b) Homo neanderthalensis
c) Australopithecus afarensis
d) Homo ergaster
e) Homo erectus
Austronesian languages:
a) is a term used for a group of unrelated languages that do not fit into another language
family
b) are spoken only in Australia
c) are not a relevant to the study of the colonization of the Pacific
d) share a common ancestor and then spread outward from a homeland region
e) are now considered to be dead languages: there are no modern speakers of an
Austronesian language
In modern Pueblo villages a __________ is a multi-purpose room used for religious,
political, and social functions.
a) ayllu
b) maize
c) hogan
d) kiva
e) ansazi
Years of painstaking study of fossil evidence as well as the study of molecular genetics
point to the fact that modern humans originated in:
a) the Middle East
b) Africa
c) Europe
d) Asia
e) a lost continent
__________ was first built during the Qin Dynasty to protect against Xiongnu
horsemen from the steppes.
a) Angkor Wat
b) The Forbidden City
c) Hadrian’s Wall
d) The Great Wall
e) The Yellow River Canal
The principal deity of Chavn de Huntar is now called __________; this deity is seen
depicted throughout the Andes for over a millennium at sites such as Tiwanaku.
a) Quetzalcoatl
b) The Lord of Sipn
c) The Gateway God
d) Chavinl
e) The Staff God
The Sumerian city-states of the Early Dynastic period were dotted over the alluvial
landscape of Mesopotamia. This area, called Sumer, is in modern:
a) Iran
b) Egypt
c) Turkey
d) Iraq
e) Israel
The main difference between early and late Acheulean material culture is that
a) the late Acheulean is characterized by an abundance of stone structures; housing
material is not found in early Acheulean sites
b) cave paintings are extensively found at late Acheulean sites
c) later Acheulean tools tend to be thinner and more symmetric than earlier tools
d) early Acheulean tools tend to be thinner and more symmetric than later ones
e) early Acheulean people buried their dead while late Acheulean people did not
Which of the following reflects the correct chronological order
of the Chalcolithic cultural periods of Southwest Asia:
a) Uruk, Ubaid, Halaf
b) Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk
c) Ubaid, Halaf, Uruk
d) Halaf, Uruk, Ubaid
e) Uruk, Halaf, Ubaid
Closely linked to the smaller and later farming sites of Kili Gul Muhammad and Rana
Ghundai, __________ is the earliest known farming settlement in South Asia, dating to
around 6500 bc.
a) Harappa
b) Angkor
c) Mehrgarh
d) Mohenjo-daro
e) Kot Diji
Barley and wheat cultivation were introduced to Egypt from:
a) Southwest Asia
b) Europe
c) Central Africa
d) East Asia
e) South Africa
Austronesian pioneers who colonized the western Pacific between 1350 and 900 bc left
a clear cut trail of Neolithic archaeological sites. This cultural complex is called:
a) Finno-Ugaritic
b) Bantu
c) Harrapan
d) Rapa Nui
e) Lapita
Which of the following is NOT the name of a hunting-gathering-fishing society of the
Pacific Coast:
a) Chumash
b) Tlingit
c) Arikara
d) Kwakiutl
e) Haida
The Nazca lines, which are terrestrial depictions of animals, lines, and geometric
shapes, are referred to as:
a) archeometry
b) geoarchaeology
c) paleoglyphs
d) geoglyphs
e) hieroglyphs
During the Late Bronze Age of eastern Europe, many settlements appear to have built
fortifications, ditches, and ramparts. These are interpreted as evidence for:
a) a return to semi-sedentism
b) increased armed conflict
c) a peaceful, egalitarian way of life
d) the development of organized religion
e) all of the above
Because of favorable environmental conditions and ample wild resources, some
Egyptian sites such as Wadi Kubbaniya display characteristics of __________ prior to
the start of the Holocene.
a) state-level society
b) urbanization
c) sedentism
d) rice cultivation
e) pyramid building
The Emperor ____________ converted to Christianity in ad 312, making it the new
state religion, and moved the capital of the empire from Rome to ____________.
a) Augustus; the Vatican
b) Hadrian; Hadrian’s Wall
c) Constantine; Constantinople
d) Alexander; Alexandria
e) Justinian; Julianica
The earliest evidence for __________ in China comes from turtle carapaces from the
Neolithic site of Jiahu that date to 6500 bc.
a) statehood
b) writing
c) warfare
d) agriculture
e) music
The Punic General Hannibal famously invaded Italy, bringing elephants over the Alps.
Hannibal was from the city of ____________ in modern Tunisia, which was an imperial
power.
a) Sparta
b) Phoenicia
c) Carthage
d) Macedon
e) Cerveteri
Which of the following is NOT a model that has emerged to describe the mode and/or
tempo by which evolutionary changes have occurred in a species:
a) gradualism
b) processualism
c) punctuated equilibrium
d) adaptive radiation
e) profound splitting of species to produce “bushes,” or complexes of closely related,
yet distinct, species
The study of the development of the human mind as well as religious and symbolic
behavior is called:
a) agency theory
b) cognitive archaeology
c) processual archaeology
d) cultural ecology
e) ethnoarchaeology
The Aztec capital of Tenochtitln was:
a) an elaborate cliff-dwelling set in the side of a ravine
b) an urban island, reclaimed from a lake, and crisscrossed by canals
c) a beautiful deep-jungle urban center located on a high plateau in Peru
d) a tiny, unimpressive place which displayed little technological skill or urban planning
e) was located on the site of what is now Guatemala City
At the site of ___________, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon found a cylindrical tower
built of stone dating from the Pre Pottery Neolithic A period.
a) Natufia
b) Abu Hureyra
c) Ohalo II
d) Jericho
e) Hilly Flanks
Before the appearance of Homo ergaster, male hominins were significantly larger than
females of the same species. This difference in size is known as:
a) polymorphic featurism
b) sexual selection
c) the expensive tissue hypothesis
d) sexual dimorphism
e) dimorphic inheritance
Although it draws on a range of other disciplines (such as chemistry, botany, and
geology) Archaeology is still considered to be:
a) a hard science
b) part of the humanities
c) a natural science
d) an artistic discipline
e) purely vocational and not academic
Hopewell people engaged in long-distance trade as can be seen by the diverse elite
grave goods found in Middle Woodland Period mounds.
The great cultures of Mesoamerica developed into impressive advanced civilizations
independently from and without contact with the civilizations of the Old World.
Contrary to popular belief, Paleoindian groups rarely exploited the full potential of their
prey, rather they engaged in “gourmet butchering.”
Large sedentary communities, expansive settlements encircled by massive earthworks,
have been found within the Amazon rainforest.
Most house compounds at Mohenjo-daro had internal bathrooms that were serviced by
a complex network of drains.
The Amazon region was dominated by cultural groups who made the vast majority of
their mounds out of megalithic stone masonry.
The majority of societies that practice farming are sedentary.
We now know that the sculptures that decorate the Parthenon were always white, the
natural color of the marble; they were never painted.
Uruk in what is now Iraq can be seen as the world’s first genuine city.
The Easter Islanders were the only Polynesians to construct large stone monuments or
temples.
Egypt dominated the Canaanite states of the Levant during the Late Bronze Age and
previously independent states became vassals of Egypt.
Potlatch is a competive ceremony accompanied by a feast, in which many items were
distributed and destroyed to enhance the prestige of the individual giving the feast.
The people of Neolithic Mehrgarh never domesticated the local zebu cattle, rather they
relied entirely on sheep and goats imported from Southwest Asia and copied that
region’s farming model.
The Shang Culture is associated with millet growing and the Changjiang culture is
associated with rice growing.
Isotopic studies can be used to answer questions about what early hominins ate.
Because only stone tools are found in the Paleolithic record, we can say definitively that
Homo species did not use other materials such as bone and wood.
Chiefdoms are societies with permanent leadership positions that are firmly embedded
in kinship relations.
There are no signs of “vertical” social hierarchy in the aceramic Neolithic: larger
communities were probably made up of a number of lineages with their own leaders
rather than one central authority.