ANT 2100
Questions With Complete Solutions
Issue of Fakes Very lucrative. People create fakes in order to sell them.
Looting People dig up artifacts in order to sell them. Destroyed many sites, still a problem
in many areas.
Issue of value of an artifact Worth a lot of money on the black market.
Early Museums Started as a place to store, collect and display artifacts.
Extinct Species Some species of humans are extinct too as well as animals.
Dinosaurs 65 million years old. An example of megafauna.
Megafauna True Dinosaurs (65 milllion) abound along with other more recent (50000
years old) critters. Mammoths, mastodons, saber tooth cats, giant armadillos, short faced cave
bears, tapir.
, ANT 2100
Questions With Complete Solutions
Sue Found at the Chicago Field Museum, this is a large skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
Fairy Arrows One of the early explanations for stone blades.
Petrified Lightning Bolts One of the early explanations for stone blades.
Mummies and Bog Bodies Popping up and intriguing people.
Bog bodies: These preserved human remains have survived due to being immersed in marshy,
waterlogged environment in the peat of Northern Europe.
Ethnography A subset of cultural anthropology concerned with the study of contemporary
cultures through first-hand observation.
Ethnographic studies of 'traditional', 'native', 'other' people - different tradition than what could
be observed in Europe - makes a clearer connection to Anthropology.
Mission San Luis Reconstruction of an Appalachee settlement.
, ANT 2100
Questions With Complete Solutions
'Testing' the Historic Record Early historic accounts of New World people are useful but
always have to be carefully examined because they're not always 100% accurate. (ethnohistoric
approach)
Fish Weirs Used to trap fish, prominent in Florida.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). He conducted the first scientific excavation in Virginia in
1784 at a burial mound on his property.
First US archaeologist. His work had little actual impact though. He used stratigraphy, deductive
reasoning and reported what he did and thought. He worked on the mounds and determined that
the ancestors of Indians built the mounds.
Mounds and who Built Them Mounds were found to the east of the Mississippi and were
allegedly built by the lost race of the moundbuilders. Later however it was proven that they were
built by the ancestors of Native Americans.
Questions With Complete Solutions
Issue of Fakes Very lucrative. People create fakes in order to sell them.
Looting People dig up artifacts in order to sell them. Destroyed many sites, still a problem
in many areas.
Issue of value of an artifact Worth a lot of money on the black market.
Early Museums Started as a place to store, collect and display artifacts.
Extinct Species Some species of humans are extinct too as well as animals.
Dinosaurs 65 million years old. An example of megafauna.
Megafauna True Dinosaurs (65 milllion) abound along with other more recent (50000
years old) critters. Mammoths, mastodons, saber tooth cats, giant armadillos, short faced cave
bears, tapir.
, ANT 2100
Questions With Complete Solutions
Sue Found at the Chicago Field Museum, this is a large skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
Fairy Arrows One of the early explanations for stone blades.
Petrified Lightning Bolts One of the early explanations for stone blades.
Mummies and Bog Bodies Popping up and intriguing people.
Bog bodies: These preserved human remains have survived due to being immersed in marshy,
waterlogged environment in the peat of Northern Europe.
Ethnography A subset of cultural anthropology concerned with the study of contemporary
cultures through first-hand observation.
Ethnographic studies of 'traditional', 'native', 'other' people - different tradition than what could
be observed in Europe - makes a clearer connection to Anthropology.
Mission San Luis Reconstruction of an Appalachee settlement.
, ANT 2100
Questions With Complete Solutions
'Testing' the Historic Record Early historic accounts of New World people are useful but
always have to be carefully examined because they're not always 100% accurate. (ethnohistoric
approach)
Fish Weirs Used to trap fish, prominent in Florida.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). He conducted the first scientific excavation in Virginia in
1784 at a burial mound on his property.
First US archaeologist. His work had little actual impact though. He used stratigraphy, deductive
reasoning and reported what he did and thought. He worked on the mounds and determined that
the ancestors of Indians built the mounds.
Mounds and who Built Them Mounds were found to the east of the Mississippi and were
allegedly built by the lost race of the moundbuilders. Later however it was proven that they were
built by the ancestors of Native Americans.
