ANT2100 midterm Exam Questions
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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?
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
Which of the following was not a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'? - ✔✔travels of Giovanni
Battista Belzoni throughout England and Ireland and his knowledge of hydraulics
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.
The year AD 1859 was an important year in the history of human thought because it was the year that: -
✔✔Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species
A "midden" is: - ✔✔a refuse deposit resulting from human activities.
"Stratigraphy" is - ✔✔A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural
sediments into layers.
A. V. Kidder (1886-1963) demonstrated that potsherds are archaeologically important because they can
provide evidence of: - ✔✔Cultural relationships among various prehistoric groups.
The term "New Archaeology" refers to - ✔✔an approach to archaeology emphasizing the understanding
of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method.
Jens J. A. Worsaae devised the well-known typological scheme of Stone age, Bronze age, and Iron age, not
his mentor. - ✔✔False
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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?
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
Which of the following was not a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'? - ✔✔travels of Giovanni
Battista Belzoni throughout England and Ireland and his knowledge of hydraulics
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.
The year AD 1859 was an important year in the history of human thought because it was the year that: -
✔✔Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species
A "midden" is: - ✔✔a refuse deposit resulting from human activities.
"Stratigraphy" is - ✔✔A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural
sediments into layers.
A. V. Kidder (1886-1963) demonstrated that potsherds are archaeologically important because they can
provide evidence of: - ✔✔Cultural relationships among various prehistoric groups.
The term "New Archaeology" refers to - ✔✔an approach to archaeology emphasizing the understanding
of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method.
Jens J. A. Worsaae devised the well-known typological scheme of Stone age, Bronze age, and Iron age, not
his mentor. - ✔✔False
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