ASB 222 Buried Cities and Lost Tribes:
Module 1
Artifacts - answer✔✔object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced
Site - answer✔✔place
Archaeology - answer✔✔study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
Cultural Items - answer✔✔Physical/material objects that have meaning, value, or use
features - answer✔✔a distinctive attribute or aspect of something.
Ecofacts - answer✔✔Natural materials that give environmental information about a site
Human Remains - answer✔✔body of a deceased person, including cremated remains
Goals of Archaeology - answer✔✔- reveal the form of the past
- discover the function of the past
- understand cultural processes
Cultural Evolution - answer✔✔The adaptive changes of cultures in response to environmental
changes over time
Band - answer✔✔a small kinship-based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over
a particular territory usually less than 100 people
Tribe - answer✔✔Any system of social organization made up of villages, bands, or other groups
with a common ancestry, language, culture, and name usually up to a few thousand people
Chiefdom - answer✔✔A societal grouping governed by a chief who typically relies on
generosity, ritual status, or charisma rather than force to win obedience from the people. usually
around 5,000-20,000+ people
State - answer✔✔A body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with the
power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority, generally 20,000+
people