Archaeology Multiple Choice

Archaeology Multiple Choice In North America, Archaeology is a sub-field of -CORRECT ANSWER- anthropology In North America, what are the four subfields of anthropology? -CORRECT ANSWER- cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological What is the main subject matter of archaeology? -CORRECT ANSWER- material culture What distinguishes historic archaeology from prehistoric archaeology? -CORRECT ANSWER- use of written records According to Trigger, the origins of archaeology lie some ______ years ago in Europe, during the Renaissance. -CORRECT ANSWER- 500 Who was the Austrian botanist who developed the principles of inheritance with his experiments on pea plants? -CORRECT ANSWER- Gregor Mendel The successive deposition of super-imposed layers, either of natural or cultural material is called -CORRECT ANSWER- stratigraphy In the United States _____________ championed the new "processual archaeology". -CORRECT ANSWER- Lewis Binford Archaeologists living among traditional societies and who observe how their activities as represented in the archaeological record are called -CORRECT ANSWER- ethnoarchaeologists ____________________ rejects the idea that we can ever obtain objective knowledge of the past, and questions the reliance of processual archaeology on specific rigid approaches. -CORRECT ANSWER- postprocessualist What are the two major types of dating techniques? -CORRECT ANSWER- relative and absolute Estimating the chronological order of gravestone uses in colonial New England cemeteries based on their decorative style is -CORRECT ANSWER- seriation and relative dating Radiocarbon dating remains the most important absolute dating method for the period after _________ years ago. -CORRECT ANSWER- 40,000 This relative dating technique uses sediment formation to establish chronological relationships. It presupposes that younger sediments overlie older sediments. -CORRECT ANSWER- Superposition What is the half life of C14? -CORRECT ANSWER- 5,730 What is the term used for the dating methodology that uses growth rings of trees? -CORRECT ANSWER- dendrochronology Ecofacts are -CORRECT ANSWER- biotic remains deposited in archaeological sites and they carry archaeological significance Formation processes for the archaeological record include -CORRECT ANSWER- relative dating techniques such as seriation and stratigraphy Processual archaeology stressed which of the following methods or techniques -CORRECT ANSWER- hypothesis testing and quantification Carbon 14 and potassium argon dating both use ____________ to measure time -CORRECT ANSWER- radioactive decay of isotopes A paleoanthropologist obtained a potassium-argon date from a 1.5 may volcanic rock associated with hominin and animal fossils in east Africa. The date from the lab is an estimate when the -CORRECT ANSWER- rock was last molten and cooled A broken Levallois point in a 200,000 year old midden and a broken vacuum in an LA landfill are both examples of artifacts in ______________ context. -CORRECT ANSWER- secondary Bipedalism would have been advantageous in parts of Africa that were ____________________ during the late Miocene -CORRECT ANSWER- grassland The site of __________________ is associated with some the earliest dates for hominin presence outside of Africa. -CORRECT ANSWER- Dmansi The Lucy fossil is important because it demonstrates the existence of ______________ over 3 million years ago. -CORRECT ANSWER- bipedalism The Turkana Boy belongs to which species of hominins? -CORRECT ANSWER- Homo ergaster The Acheulian handaxe is associated with -CORRECT ANSWER- Home ergaster Which