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Archaeology Final Exam Questions And Answers (Updated And Verified) What is faunal assemblage? - answerThe animal remains recovered from archaeological site (different from paleontological b/c humans might have a hand in it) What is a kill site? - answerPlaces where animals were killed in the past What is an zooarchaelogist what do they perform usually? - answerAn individual who studies the faunal (animal) remains recovered and faunal analysis = identification and interpretation of animal...

Archaeology Test #2 Exam Questions With Verified Answers Faunal Assenblages - answerthe animal remains recovered from and achraeological site Zooarchaeologist - answerspecializes on the animal remains from archaeological sites Faunal Analysis - answerIdentification and interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites 2 steps for Identifying Faunal Remains - answer1. Assign each specimen to an element (e.g. humorous) 2. Identify the specimens to taxon (species or genus) Compara...

The historic period correct answers the last 5000 years of history - that period of time since the appearance of writing Primary records correct answers accounts(usually written) of an event by someone who saw it happen. Secondary records correct answers accounts(usually written) that are made after an event by someone who was not there. (example: a history text) The prehistoric period correct answers that period of time prior to written records. (5000 years ago and longer) Artifacts...

ANTH Exam 1 Ache - ANSWER-Hunters of Paraguay, after 400 kya, bigger brains and meat eaters, hunger/gatherers Acheulean - ANSWER-stone tool industry of the early and middle pleistoscene characterized by the presence of bifacial hand axes & clevers, associated with Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens Anatomically Modern Humans - ANSWER-first evidence traces back to 160,000 years ago homo sapiens, middle Paleolithic, look like us, don't behave like us Anthropology - ANSWER-Study of t...

Archaeology Exam 3 Questions With 100% Correct Answers Analogy - answerNoting similarities between two entities and inferring from that similarity that an additional attribute of one (the ethnographic case) is also true for the other (the archaeological case). Principal of Uniformitarianism - answerThe principle asserting that the processes now operating to modify the earth's surface are the same processes that operated long ago in the geological past. faunal - answerin archaeology, ani...

The historic periodcorrect answersthe last 5000 years of history - that period of time since the appearance of writing Primary recordscorrect answersaccounts(usually written) of an event by someone who saw it happen. Secondary recordscorrect answersaccounts(usually written) that are made after an event by someone who was not there. (example: a history text) The prehistoric periodcorrect answersthat period of time prior to written records. (5000 years ago and longer) Artifactscorrect answersa...

What techniques do archaeologists use to study past diet and foodways? correct answers Botanical remains, faunal analysis, coprolites, human remains, tools or vessels, artifact analysis Botanical Remains correct answers -Macro: stems, seeds, and leaf parts -Micro: pollen, phytolith (leaf skeleton, silcas -Flotation: separate soil from plant remains Faunal Analysis correct answers identification and interpretation of animal remains (bones) from an archaeological site Coprolites correct...

SCIN 138Week 2 Exam (timed and single access) Part 1 of 2 - 36.0/ 52.0 Points Question 1 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points What piece of evidence for continental drift explains why we find ancient reefs in co ld climates?  A. polar wandering  B. the increase is sea level  C. the fact that continents move Feedback:2 Plate Tectonics Question 2 of 25 0.0/ 4.0 Points Ocean–continent convergent boundaries are commonly associated with which landforms?  A. oceanic trench, island arc  B. broad moun...

Pervious questions 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which two elements are the most common in the crust?  A. iron and magnesium  B. potassium and magnesium  C. silicon and oxygen Which element comprises about 8% of the crust?  A. silicon  B. iron  C. aluminum Which of the following techniques is the MOST diagnostic or reliable?  A. color  B. hardness  C. cleavage Question 4 of 25 0.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is considered to be composed of a mineral?  A. l...

ANTH 101 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers (1) Explain how fossils are formed and why they are not equally prevalent in all areas. - Answer-fossils are the remains of past life forms that have been partially or wholly transformed into rock and displaced through a long process of chemical replacement. minerals in bones and teeth are replaced with rock forming minerals like iron and silica. can be from any body part however 99% are made up of teeth and and bones. taphonomy (how fossi...