ASB 222 FINAL 2027 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET
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✔✔important pottery production processes - ✔✔Temperature, amount of water vs. clay,
and type of inclusion material
✔✔The study of clan and inclusions in pottery - ✔✔Individual variation in recipes,
functional information on pottery and trading networks for raw materials can be learned
✔✔Younger Dryas - ✔✔Cooler, drier weather around 10,000 BC
✔✔Agriculture in the near east brought - ✔✔more warfare and large, dense settlements
✔✔Abu Hureyra peoples responded to Younger Dryas - ✔✔First diversified grasses and
then intensified rye cultivation
✔✔Animals domesticated by the people of Mesoamerica - ✔✔Ducks, bees, and turkeys
✔✔Predominant plant seed in Mesoamerica - ✔✔Maize
✔✔Revolutionary Agriculture - ✔✔Allowed for higher population density, impact plant
evolution and became more sedentary
✔✔Analysis of clay and inclusions - ✔✔Determine whether a pot was made using local
or non-local materials
✔✔Dependence on domesticated fauna at Ain ghazal - ✔✔Area suffered environmental
degredation
✔✔Increase in dental caries (cavities) in skeletal remains - ✔✔Associated with the
arrival of agriculture
, ✔✔Domesticated plants differ from their wild relatives - ✔✔Larger and/or more fruit,
impaired seed-dispersal mechanisms, require humans to help reproduction
✔✔Palynologist interpret a decrease in tree pollen, increase in grass pollen after the
intro of farming - ✔✔Evidence for deforestation
✔✔Flotation of archeological sediments is aimed towards the recovery - ✔✔Seeds
✔✔The change in the environment because of agriculture - ✔✔Erosion, deforestation,
and loss of species diversity
✔✔Domstication vs. Agriculture - ✔✔Domestication does not refer to fauna and
agriculture does NOT refer only to flora
✔✔Short period of heating - ✔✔Neolithic coincides with the end of Younger Dryas
✔✔Phytoliths are plentiful in the archaeological record - ✔✔Made of silica and resist
decay
✔✔The Hohokam built and maintained - ✔✔The most extensive irrigation system in
prehistoric N. America
✔✔Hopewell Mounds - ✔✔Created a stronger sense of community
✔✔Palisades at Cahokia is not defensive - ✔✔Very little archaeological evidence of
overt conflict
✔✔Cahokia - ✔✔Archaeological site located in American southwest, and shows
evidence for exchange with groups in modern day Mexico.
✔✔Most prevalent theory in Chaco Phenomenon - ✔✔Was a ceremonial center for
ritual and pilgrimage
✔✔Cahokia ritual spaces differ from earlier Hopewell - ✔✔Ritual spaces controlled by
elites
✔✔Construction of Hohokam canals - ✔✔Helped ensure up to a thousand years of
relatively secure occupation
✔✔Hohokam ceramics - ✔✔Sourced by studying thin sections and using the
microprobe
✔✔Specific architecture like the Chacoan Great Houses - ✔✔The signature of the
Chaco phenomenon
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✔✔important pottery production processes - ✔✔Temperature, amount of water vs. clay,
and type of inclusion material
✔✔The study of clan and inclusions in pottery - ✔✔Individual variation in recipes,
functional information on pottery and trading networks for raw materials can be learned
✔✔Younger Dryas - ✔✔Cooler, drier weather around 10,000 BC
✔✔Agriculture in the near east brought - ✔✔more warfare and large, dense settlements
✔✔Abu Hureyra peoples responded to Younger Dryas - ✔✔First diversified grasses and
then intensified rye cultivation
✔✔Animals domesticated by the people of Mesoamerica - ✔✔Ducks, bees, and turkeys
✔✔Predominant plant seed in Mesoamerica - ✔✔Maize
✔✔Revolutionary Agriculture - ✔✔Allowed for higher population density, impact plant
evolution and became more sedentary
✔✔Analysis of clay and inclusions - ✔✔Determine whether a pot was made using local
or non-local materials
✔✔Dependence on domesticated fauna at Ain ghazal - ✔✔Area suffered environmental
degredation
✔✔Increase in dental caries (cavities) in skeletal remains - ✔✔Associated with the
arrival of agriculture
, ✔✔Domesticated plants differ from their wild relatives - ✔✔Larger and/or more fruit,
impaired seed-dispersal mechanisms, require humans to help reproduction
✔✔Palynologist interpret a decrease in tree pollen, increase in grass pollen after the
intro of farming - ✔✔Evidence for deforestation
✔✔Flotation of archeological sediments is aimed towards the recovery - ✔✔Seeds
✔✔The change in the environment because of agriculture - ✔✔Erosion, deforestation,
and loss of species diversity
✔✔Domstication vs. Agriculture - ✔✔Domestication does not refer to fauna and
agriculture does NOT refer only to flora
✔✔Short period of heating - ✔✔Neolithic coincides with the end of Younger Dryas
✔✔Phytoliths are plentiful in the archaeological record - ✔✔Made of silica and resist
decay
✔✔The Hohokam built and maintained - ✔✔The most extensive irrigation system in
prehistoric N. America
✔✔Hopewell Mounds - ✔✔Created a stronger sense of community
✔✔Palisades at Cahokia is not defensive - ✔✔Very little archaeological evidence of
overt conflict
✔✔Cahokia - ✔✔Archaeological site located in American southwest, and shows
evidence for exchange with groups in modern day Mexico.
✔✔Most prevalent theory in Chaco Phenomenon - ✔✔Was a ceremonial center for
ritual and pilgrimage
✔✔Cahokia ritual spaces differ from earlier Hopewell - ✔✔Ritual spaces controlled by
elites
✔✔Construction of Hohokam canals - ✔✔Helped ensure up to a thousand years of
relatively secure occupation
✔✔Hohokam ceramics - ✔✔Sourced by studying thin sections and using the
microprobe
✔✔Specific architecture like the Chacoan Great Houses - ✔✔The signature of the
Chaco phenomenon
