ANT 207 Quiz 3 / Exam 3 (Final) UNCW (Simmons) – Study Guide, Practice
Questions & Exam Review
National Historic Preservation Act (1966) - ANS ✔✔this act created the National Register of
Historic Places, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and State Historic Preservation
Offices, as well as a process to mitigate the impact of development, it also requires that
government agencies provide good stewardship of their cultural resources.
Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) 1979 - ANS ✔✔this act prohibits the excavation
or removal of artifacts from federal property without a permit, prohibits the sale, exchange, or
transport of artifacts acquired illegally from federal property, and increases the penalties for
violations of the act over those of the Antiquities Act.
Section 106 of the NHPA - ANS ✔✔applies to sites that are "included in or eligible for inclusion
in the National Register". It says that the government must understand and consider the value
of prehistoric and historic sites in agency planning and activities.
Area of Potential Effect (APE) - ANS ✔✔the area that will be directly or indirectly affected by a
construction project; in some cases, it might encompass not only areas that are affected by
construction but also areas seen from it.
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) - ANS ✔✔a list of significant historic and prehistoric
properties, including districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects.
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) (NAGPRA) - ANS ✔✔protects
Indian graves on federal and tribal lands, recognizes tribal authority over the treatment of
unmarked graves, prohibits the commercial selling of dead bodies, requires an inventory
cultural affiliation - ANS ✔✔NAGPRA cases hinge in large part on establishing this black market
in antiquities; "a relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced
, historically or prehistorically between a present-day Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization and an identifiable earlier group.
Social Organization - ANS ✔✔the rules and structures that govern relations within a group of
interacting people. Societies are divided into social units (groups) within which are recognized
social positions (statuses), with appropriate behavior patterns prescribed for these positions
(roles).
Political Organization - ANS ✔✔a society's formal and informal institutions that regulate a
population's collective acts.
Potlatch - ANS ✔✔ceremony involving the giving away or destruction of property in order to
acquire prestige.
Ethnoarchaeology - ANS ✔✔the study of contemporary peoples to determine how human
behavior is translated into the archaeological record.
Dobe !Kung - ANS ✔✔a foraging (hunting-gathering) lifestyle in Africa. Consume about 100
different plants and 50 different animals. Egalitarian society.
Subsistence Economy - ANS ✔✔economic surplus is minimal and only used to trade for basic
goods, and there is no industrialization. In hunting and gathering societies, resources are
often/typically underused. In human history, before the first cities, all humans lived in a
subsistence economy.
Agropastoralism - ANS ✔✔a form of social organization based on the growing of crops and the
raising of livestock as the primary means of economic activity.
Food Storage - ANS ✔✔storage pits, underground cists that were used historically to protect the
seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and
rodents.
Questions & Exam Review
National Historic Preservation Act (1966) - ANS ✔✔this act created the National Register of
Historic Places, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and State Historic Preservation
Offices, as well as a process to mitigate the impact of development, it also requires that
government agencies provide good stewardship of their cultural resources.
Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) 1979 - ANS ✔✔this act prohibits the excavation
or removal of artifacts from federal property without a permit, prohibits the sale, exchange, or
transport of artifacts acquired illegally from federal property, and increases the penalties for
violations of the act over those of the Antiquities Act.
Section 106 of the NHPA - ANS ✔✔applies to sites that are "included in or eligible for inclusion
in the National Register". It says that the government must understand and consider the value
of prehistoric and historic sites in agency planning and activities.
Area of Potential Effect (APE) - ANS ✔✔the area that will be directly or indirectly affected by a
construction project; in some cases, it might encompass not only areas that are affected by
construction but also areas seen from it.
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) - ANS ✔✔a list of significant historic and prehistoric
properties, including districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects.
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) (NAGPRA) - ANS ✔✔protects
Indian graves on federal and tribal lands, recognizes tribal authority over the treatment of
unmarked graves, prohibits the commercial selling of dead bodies, requires an inventory
cultural affiliation - ANS ✔✔NAGPRA cases hinge in large part on establishing this black market
in antiquities; "a relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced
, historically or prehistorically between a present-day Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization and an identifiable earlier group.
Social Organization - ANS ✔✔the rules and structures that govern relations within a group of
interacting people. Societies are divided into social units (groups) within which are recognized
social positions (statuses), with appropriate behavior patterns prescribed for these positions
(roles).
Political Organization - ANS ✔✔a society's formal and informal institutions that regulate a
population's collective acts.
Potlatch - ANS ✔✔ceremony involving the giving away or destruction of property in order to
acquire prestige.
Ethnoarchaeology - ANS ✔✔the study of contemporary peoples to determine how human
behavior is translated into the archaeological record.
Dobe !Kung - ANS ✔✔a foraging (hunting-gathering) lifestyle in Africa. Consume about 100
different plants and 50 different animals. Egalitarian society.
Subsistence Economy - ANS ✔✔economic surplus is minimal and only used to trade for basic
goods, and there is no industrialization. In hunting and gathering societies, resources are
often/typically underused. In human history, before the first cities, all humans lived in a
subsistence economy.
Agropastoralism - ANS ✔✔a form of social organization based on the growing of crops and the
raising of livestock as the primary means of economic activity.
Food Storage - ANS ✔✔storage pits, underground cists that were used historically to protect the
seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and
rodents.
