ANT 2100 exam 1 Questions and
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what do anthropologists study? - ✔✔human kind
Seasonal Variation Effect - ✔✔the ability to accurately cross date tree rings within a limited region
What does the Mound-builder myth prove? - ✔✔That social, political, and cultural beliefs can influence
archaeological theories
Artifact's provenience is - ✔✔its horizontal and vertical positions in the surrounding site matrix
What is goal of a ground reconnaissance survey? - ✔✔to find every site in the region
Tell - ✔✔site humans have occupied over long periods of time (1,000's of years)
artifact - ✔✔objects used, modified, or made by people
ecofact - ✔✔organic and environmental remains
features - ✔✔non-portable artifacts (hearths, postholes, floors, etc.)
typology - ✔✔systematic organization of artifacts into types on basis of physical attributes
taphonomy - ✔✔study of site formation processes (includes cultural and natural formation)
cultural formation - ✔✔deliberate or accidental activity of human beings
natural formation - ✔✔natural processes that effect the burial and survival of archaeological remains
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, experimental archaeology - ✔✔study of past behavioral processes through experimental reconstruction
undder carefully controlled scientific conditions
Burial of the dead - ✔✔1. people do not bury themselves
2. artifacts are placed in burials intentionally
3. artifacts can tell us what others thought about the person buried (a person's grave will represent that
person's status)
Kebara, Israel - ✔✔60 kya burial, most complete Neanderthal skeleton known
Lake Mungo 3, Australia - ✔✔60 - 40 kya? burial of modern individual, covered in ochre -----> early art
and ritual?
Sungir, Russia - ✔✔28 kya, elaborate burial of 60-y-o man wearing jewelry and fancy tunic
Dolne Vestonice, Czech Republic - ✔✔28-25 kya, important Upper Paleolithic site with many cultural
elements, art, burial, huts with some type of kiln
Arene Candide, Italy - ✔✔20 kya, burials become more numerous and elaborate
Varna Cemetery - ✔✔large concentrations of gold and silver, dates to after 4500 BC, most burials
disturbed
The Iceman - oetzi: - ✔✔5300 years old (Copper Age), died of arrow wound
Pazyryk, Siberia - ✔✔burial mounds date to Iron Age (400 BC), extremely elaborate tattoos
3 major players in archaeology research: - ✔✔time, money, people
Cultural Resource Management - ✔✔before any major construction can occur, archaeologists must survey
the location for sites
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what do anthropologists study? - ✔✔human kind
Seasonal Variation Effect - ✔✔the ability to accurately cross date tree rings within a limited region
What does the Mound-builder myth prove? - ✔✔That social, political, and cultural beliefs can influence
archaeological theories
Artifact's provenience is - ✔✔its horizontal and vertical positions in the surrounding site matrix
What is goal of a ground reconnaissance survey? - ✔✔to find every site in the region
Tell - ✔✔site humans have occupied over long periods of time (1,000's of years)
artifact - ✔✔objects used, modified, or made by people
ecofact - ✔✔organic and environmental remains
features - ✔✔non-portable artifacts (hearths, postholes, floors, etc.)
typology - ✔✔systematic organization of artifacts into types on basis of physical attributes
taphonomy - ✔✔study of site formation processes (includes cultural and natural formation)
cultural formation - ✔✔deliberate or accidental activity of human beings
natural formation - ✔✔natural processes that effect the burial and survival of archaeological remains
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, experimental archaeology - ✔✔study of past behavioral processes through experimental reconstruction
undder carefully controlled scientific conditions
Burial of the dead - ✔✔1. people do not bury themselves
2. artifacts are placed in burials intentionally
3. artifacts can tell us what others thought about the person buried (a person's grave will represent that
person's status)
Kebara, Israel - ✔✔60 kya burial, most complete Neanderthal skeleton known
Lake Mungo 3, Australia - ✔✔60 - 40 kya? burial of modern individual, covered in ochre -----> early art
and ritual?
Sungir, Russia - ✔✔28 kya, elaborate burial of 60-y-o man wearing jewelry and fancy tunic
Dolne Vestonice, Czech Republic - ✔✔28-25 kya, important Upper Paleolithic site with many cultural
elements, art, burial, huts with some type of kiln
Arene Candide, Italy - ✔✔20 kya, burials become more numerous and elaborate
Varna Cemetery - ✔✔large concentrations of gold and silver, dates to after 4500 BC, most burials
disturbed
The Iceman - oetzi: - ✔✔5300 years old (Copper Age), died of arrow wound
Pazyryk, Siberia - ✔✔burial mounds date to Iron Age (400 BC), extremely elaborate tattoos
3 major players in archaeology research: - ✔✔time, money, people
Cultural Resource Management - ✔✔before any major construction can occur, archaeologists must survey
the location for sites
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