ASB EXAM 1 Question and answers
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Subfields of Anthropology - correct answer ✔Socio-cultural anthropology
Linguistic anthropology
Physical anthropology
Anthropological archaeology
Archaeological Sites - correct answer ✔Discrete localities of past human activity
Represent a basic unit of investigation
There are many kinds of sites: Cities, towns, villages, households, ritual sites, hunting sites, etc.
They are useful to understand ancient demography, political organization, economics, religion, etc.
Long Count (and it's units) - correct answer ✔
Fallow - correct answer ✔
Eco-facts - correct answer ✔Non-artifactual remains that are culturally relevant ex animal bones,
animal remains, pollen, seeds
Artifacts - correct answer ✔Portable objects whose form is modified or wholly created by human
activity
Features - correct answer ✔Non-portable, human-made remains that cannot be removed from their
place of discovery
Haab - correct answer ✔
, bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔
The state - correct answer ✔Agriculture's unintended consequence
An autonomous political unit with
inequality, social classes, and formal
governmental institutions
Economically and often ethnically
diverse, regionally organized societies
whose populations number in the
1000s or millions
Maintain geographic area or
territory. Able to integrate or manage
many competing political and
economic interests
Tzolk'in - correct answer ✔
Swidden - correct answer ✔
Ideology - correct answer ✔State power is viewed as legitimate
Often expressed in terms of religion,
patriotism, tradition, even progress
Paul Kirchhoff - correct answer ✔Defined Mesoamerica as a culture area
rated A+ 2025/2026
Subfields of Anthropology - correct answer ✔Socio-cultural anthropology
Linguistic anthropology
Physical anthropology
Anthropological archaeology
Archaeological Sites - correct answer ✔Discrete localities of past human activity
Represent a basic unit of investigation
There are many kinds of sites: Cities, towns, villages, households, ritual sites, hunting sites, etc.
They are useful to understand ancient demography, political organization, economics, religion, etc.
Long Count (and it's units) - correct answer ✔
Fallow - correct answer ✔
Eco-facts - correct answer ✔Non-artifactual remains that are culturally relevant ex animal bones,
animal remains, pollen, seeds
Artifacts - correct answer ✔Portable objects whose form is modified or wholly created by human
activity
Features - correct answer ✔Non-portable, human-made remains that cannot be removed from their
place of discovery
Haab - correct answer ✔
, bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔
The state - correct answer ✔Agriculture's unintended consequence
An autonomous political unit with
inequality, social classes, and formal
governmental institutions
Economically and often ethnically
diverse, regionally organized societies
whose populations number in the
1000s or millions
Maintain geographic area or
territory. Able to integrate or manage
many competing political and
economic interests
Tzolk'in - correct answer ✔
Swidden - correct answer ✔
Ideology - correct answer ✔State power is viewed as legitimate
Often expressed in terms of religion,
patriotism, tradition, even progress
Paul Kirchhoff - correct answer ✔Defined Mesoamerica as a culture area
