ASB Exam #3 Review Question and
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Social Identities - correct answer ✔- Individuals identification with broader groups on the basis of
socially significant differences.
- Shapes our worldview
What are some examples of social identities? - correct answer ✔Age, gender, class, ethnicity, religion,
etc.
Indian Knoll - correct answer ✔Shell Midden site in Kentucky (6100 - 4500 BP). Groups of people
deposited mussel shells and buried their dead. It was excavated twice in 1940.
- Found 23 dog burials
- Found tools, bayer stones, rattlers, and spears
Analogy - correct answer ✔A form of reasoning where the identity of unknown things is inferred from
those that are known. Assume cultural continuity.
Ethnographic analogy - correct answer ✔A method for inferring the use or meaning of an ancient site
or artifact based on observations and accounts of its use by living people. Our models of the past are
based on the assumptions from modern society.
Gender role - correct answer ✔The culturally prescribed behavior associated with men and women.
Roles can vary from society to society.
Third gender - correct answer ✔Biological sex does not determine gender. A person who does not
identify with the traditional genders of man or woman but identifies with another gender.
, Religion - correct answer ✔A complex set of esoteric beliefs, origin myths, and doctrines (fogelin). A
particular set of beliefs about the supernatural. System of symbols.
Religion and archaeology - correct answer ✔- Ask not what religion is, but what it does
- People do religion as much as they think about it
- Archaeology is not concerned with figuring out which religion is right
- Want to know how people practice it and its function in society
Cognitive archaeology - correct answer ✔Study of aspects of ancient culture that are the product of the
human mind.
Rituals - correct answer ✔Behaviors that must be performed in a particular order under particular
circumstances. Leaves material traces.
How do we study religion? - correct answer ✔- Ethnohistory & history (texts)
- Ethnoarchaeology (anthropology; go to cultures and study materials/practices of modern culture)
- Sacred architecture (experiences)
- Sacred landscape
- Iconography (most important)
- Morturary archaeology
Step 1 - correct answer ✔Identify a belief in the afterlife or supernatural
- Look for key symbols
- Use iconography and morturary archaeology
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Social Identities - correct answer ✔- Individuals identification with broader groups on the basis of
socially significant differences.
- Shapes our worldview
What are some examples of social identities? - correct answer ✔Age, gender, class, ethnicity, religion,
etc.
Indian Knoll - correct answer ✔Shell Midden site in Kentucky (6100 - 4500 BP). Groups of people
deposited mussel shells and buried their dead. It was excavated twice in 1940.
- Found 23 dog burials
- Found tools, bayer stones, rattlers, and spears
Analogy - correct answer ✔A form of reasoning where the identity of unknown things is inferred from
those that are known. Assume cultural continuity.
Ethnographic analogy - correct answer ✔A method for inferring the use or meaning of an ancient site
or artifact based on observations and accounts of its use by living people. Our models of the past are
based on the assumptions from modern society.
Gender role - correct answer ✔The culturally prescribed behavior associated with men and women.
Roles can vary from society to society.
Third gender - correct answer ✔Biological sex does not determine gender. A person who does not
identify with the traditional genders of man or woman but identifies with another gender.
, Religion - correct answer ✔A complex set of esoteric beliefs, origin myths, and doctrines (fogelin). A
particular set of beliefs about the supernatural. System of symbols.
Religion and archaeology - correct answer ✔- Ask not what religion is, but what it does
- People do religion as much as they think about it
- Archaeology is not concerned with figuring out which religion is right
- Want to know how people practice it and its function in society
Cognitive archaeology - correct answer ✔Study of aspects of ancient culture that are the product of the
human mind.
Rituals - correct answer ✔Behaviors that must be performed in a particular order under particular
circumstances. Leaves material traces.
How do we study religion? - correct answer ✔- Ethnohistory & history (texts)
- Ethnoarchaeology (anthropology; go to cultures and study materials/practices of modern culture)
- Sacred architecture (experiences)
- Sacred landscape
- Iconography (most important)
- Morturary archaeology
Step 1 - correct answer ✔Identify a belief in the afterlife or supernatural
- Look for key symbols
- Use iconography and morturary archaeology
