Asb 222 Final Updated Actual Exam Questions With Verified Answers (2026)

ASB 222 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS (2026)



●● Pompeii
Answer: -Ash fell up to 6 inches an hour and made buildings collapse;
Covered buildings and people acting as a mold, ultimately preserving the
forms of the perished people.
- Pyroclastic surge: pieces of volcanic debris that rolled down the
mountain at extremely high speeds; what really killed people
○ Erupted August 25th


●● Archeological Record
Answer: study of past behavior and formation processes (how
archeological records are formed)


●● Dynamic and Archeological Context
Answer: - Dynamic: actively being used in time period
- Archeological: things we are looking at now from the past


●● Formation Processes
Answer: - When dynamic context switches to archeological context
- Transform the material remnants of past behavior

, - They can:
- Modify objects
- Move objects around
- Dissociate objects that were used together
- Can create spurious association between unrelated objects
Decrease/increase quantities of objects


●● Depositional Processes
Answer: Transforms material remnants from dynamic to archeological
context


●● Cultural Disturbance processes
Answer: Change the materials within the archeological record itself
- EX: looting


●● Preservation Processes
Answer: Affect the survival of material remains in archeological context


●● Natural Disturbance Processes
Answer: Change the materials within the archeological record itself


●● Archeological Data