ASB 222 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers

ASB 222 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers


Question 1:
Thomas Jefferson
Answer:
first American archeologist



Question 2:
Archeologist Vs Paleontologists
Answer:
-paleontologists (dinosaurs)



Question 3:
-uses fossil recrod When does archeology start?
Answer:
the first human made object



Question 4:
~3.3 million years ago History
Answer:
study of human past through written record



Question 5:
~ 5.4 kya (thousand years ago) Prehistoric archeology
-It takes away written culture
Answer:
-Way bigger than History
-Has no bias



Question 6:
Archeology is both???
-History: focuses on particular past events (American revolution)

, Answer:
-Both history and Science



Question 7:
-Science: focuses on regularities across culture of events (all revolutions) Goals of archeology
Answer:
1. reconstruct the history of human populations (What? When? Where?)



Question 8:
2. Explain the history (why?) "Young Earth" Hypothesis-creation took place October 23 4004 BC
James
Answer:
-Based on the bible Usher



Question 9:
Catastrophists
Answer:
Time is marked by creation and catastrophe This system only has two kinds of change



Question 10:
Uniformitariamism-change is always happening slowly and uniform-Implies that if you calculate
rate of change you can calculate change
Answer:
-Laws of nature can constant in time and space-Leads to Old earth Hypothesis



Question 11:
Ideal World
Answer:
sites give us a perfect window into the pastI.E Pompeii



Question 12:
Pyroclastic Surge-what killed the city and the people