ANT2100 MT EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology unique from other
disciplines that study humans? - ✔✔Anthropology argues that the best understanding of the human
condition comes from a global, comparative, and holistic perspective.
A specialist from which of the four subfields of anthropology would be most likely to study ritual and
kinship among people in contemporary societies? - ✔✔Cultural anthropology
Archaeology can best be defined as: - ✔✔The study of the past through the systematic recovery and
analysis of material remains.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of: - ✔✔How the social, cultural, and political context of
archaeology can influence its theories.
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by: - ✔✔Scientifically evaluating
previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans had indeed built the mounds.
Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept the fact that Native
Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys? -
✔✔Believing that a superior race had built the mounds fit nicely into the social and political context of
the times, helping to justify colonialism.
Low-level theories are: - ✔✔The observations and interpretations that emerge from hands-on
archaeological field and lab work.
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, An example of a high-level theory would be a theory that seeks to answer which of the following
questions? - ✔✔Why did some societies evolve stratified social and political systems whereas others
remained egalitarian?
True or False? An ecofact is a plant or animal remain found at an archaeological site, to include bones,
charcoal, and pollen. - ✔✔True.
The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal laws, and the systemic view
of culture is: - ✔✔Postprocessual archaeology.
What's NOT a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'?
A) Boucher de Perthes's discovery of ancient axe heads and bones of extinct mammals.
B) Charles Lyell's book on the principles of geology.
C) Darwin's publication "On the Origin of Species."
D) Travels of Giovanni Battista Belzoni throughout England and Ireland and his knowledge of
hydraulics.
E) Hugh Falconer's visit to Abbeville to examine evidence from French gravel pits. - ✔✔D
Charles Lyell's 1865 book The Geologic Evidences for the Antiquity of Man was important because it: -
✔✔Documented the fact that humans had lived with now-extinct animals in the distant past.
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology unique from other
disciplines that study humans? - ✔✔Anthropology argues that the best understanding of the human
condition comes from a global, comparative, and holistic perspective.
A specialist from which of the four subfields of anthropology would be most likely to study ritual and
kinship among people in contemporary societies? - ✔✔Cultural anthropology
Archaeology can best be defined as: - ✔✔The study of the past through the systematic recovery and
analysis of material remains.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of: - ✔✔How the social, cultural, and political context of
archaeology can influence its theories.
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by: - ✔✔Scientifically evaluating
previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans had indeed built the mounds.
Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept the fact that Native
Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys? -
✔✔Believing that a superior race had built the mounds fit nicely into the social and political context of
the times, helping to justify colonialism.
Low-level theories are: - ✔✔The observations and interpretations that emerge from hands-on
archaeological field and lab work.
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, An example of a high-level theory would be a theory that seeks to answer which of the following
questions? - ✔✔Why did some societies evolve stratified social and political systems whereas others
remained egalitarian?
True or False? An ecofact is a plant or animal remain found at an archaeological site, to include bones,
charcoal, and pollen. - ✔✔True.
The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal laws, and the systemic view
of culture is: - ✔✔Postprocessual archaeology.
What's NOT a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'?
A) Boucher de Perthes's discovery of ancient axe heads and bones of extinct mammals.
B) Charles Lyell's book on the principles of geology.
C) Darwin's publication "On the Origin of Species."
D) Travels of Giovanni Battista Belzoni throughout England and Ireland and his knowledge of
hydraulics.
E) Hugh Falconer's visit to Abbeville to examine evidence from French gravel pits. - ✔✔D
Charles Lyell's 1865 book The Geologic Evidences for the Antiquity of Man was important because it: -
✔✔Documented the fact that humans had lived with now-extinct animals in the distant past.
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