BURIED CITIES AND LOST TRIBES EXAM 1 ASU
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
"what, when, and where" correct answer Reconstruct the history of human
populations
-What happened on sight?
-What were they doing?
-What type of tools were they using?
-When did they arrive?
-Where did they come from?
-Where did they go?
"why" correct answer explain this history
-Why did we disperse around the globe so rapidly?
-Why is there sexual division of labor?
-Why did we domesticate plants and animals?
-Why did we start at some point in time to live in villages/cities?
aerial survey correct answer an important technique, primarily employing aerial
and satellite imagery, used in the discovery and recording of archaeological sites
-can discover things from above that can't be seen from ground point
Antiquity of Humankind correct answer the establishment paved the way towards
modern archaeology
Archaeological record correct answer about 3.3 million years
, archaeologist record correct answer reflects the past perfectly (in an ideal world)
ex: Pompeii- Roman town where the volcano erupted and fossilized the entire city
and the people within
Archaeologist record formula correct answer Archaeologist record = past behavior
x formation processes
Archaeology correct answer study of the human past and culture
artifact correct answer item made by human craft
-cultural
-movable object
burial correct answer feature that contain human/animal remains
cultural disturbance process correct answer change the materials within the
archaeological record itself;
Ex: Human activity
construction "salvage archaeology"
looting
destruction
Deposition Process correct answer transform material remnants from
ethnographic to archaeological context
1. Primary Context
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
"what, when, and where" correct answer Reconstruct the history of human
populations
-What happened on sight?
-What were they doing?
-What type of tools were they using?
-When did they arrive?
-Where did they come from?
-Where did they go?
"why" correct answer explain this history
-Why did we disperse around the globe so rapidly?
-Why is there sexual division of labor?
-Why did we domesticate plants and animals?
-Why did we start at some point in time to live in villages/cities?
aerial survey correct answer an important technique, primarily employing aerial
and satellite imagery, used in the discovery and recording of archaeological sites
-can discover things from above that can't be seen from ground point
Antiquity of Humankind correct answer the establishment paved the way towards
modern archaeology
Archaeological record correct answer about 3.3 million years
, archaeologist record correct answer reflects the past perfectly (in an ideal world)
ex: Pompeii- Roman town where the volcano erupted and fossilized the entire city
and the people within
Archaeologist record formula correct answer Archaeologist record = past behavior
x formation processes
Archaeology correct answer study of the human past and culture
artifact correct answer item made by human craft
-cultural
-movable object
burial correct answer feature that contain human/animal remains
cultural disturbance process correct answer change the materials within the
archaeological record itself;
Ex: Human activity
construction "salvage archaeology"
looting
destruction
Deposition Process correct answer transform material remnants from
ethnographic to archaeological context
1. Primary Context
