ASB 222 Module 1-7 Questions with Correct Answers

ASB 222 Module 1-7 Questions with Correct Answers


Question 1:
Earthworks/Land Art
Answer:
Outdoor works that use the earth and natural materials as their



Question 2:
Hopewell: communal ceremonial centers perhaps used to tie disperse community
Answer:
medium



Question 3:
Adena: one of first to build earthworks
Answer:
together.



Question 4:
Mounds
Answer:
a constructed hill, normally over a burial site



Question 5:
Hopewell: tripartite structure, expressed closure, charnel houses, caches of ceremonial objects
Poverty Point, LA
Answer:
Earthwork 2K years prior to Hopewell - type of Adena



Question 6:
Adena Mounds
Answer:
Adena and Hopewell

,Question 7:
A. 500
C. 400
Answer:
Ohio River Valleyflat-topped hills formed circles, squares, or other



Question 8:
Ceremonial enclosures = not defensive works. Surrounded burial mounds or stood
Answer:
shapes and were 350 ft across.



Question 9:
Not as complex as Hopewell
Answer:
Most were communal mounds and generations added to it.



Question 10:
Hopewell Subsistence System Small, Dispersed hamlets Farming local crops
Wild game: deer
Answer:
evidenced by little midden deveolopment Wild plants: nuts



Question 11:
Types and Forms of Hopewell earthworks octagons, circles, squares, often tripartite
Answer:
elaborate mounds, causeways, "forts", Scale was huge



Question 12:
Reasons for building earthworks and mounds underworld
make dispersed community more concrete
some segmentation- perhaps signifying different clan participation mark ceremonial event
Answer:
perhaps signified ancestral passage to established social and territorial boundaries

,Question 13:
Cahokia
as 25,000 Native Americans
Answer:
Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many



Question 14:
Religious leaders and rulers may have inherited power -richly decorated graves
Answer:
native american sacred traditions have roots here.



Question 15:
Rich artistic tradition, survived in other cultures right up to European explorers arrived in
Answer:
Collapsed in 1250



Question 16:
Long term trend toward greater political elaboration, degree of social ranking and
Answer:
Weather too harsh to cultivate large civilizations like Maya or Aztec interdepence



Question 17:
Enchanted Objects identified by craftmanship:
Polished shinyness Form
Color Ornamentation
Answer:
ritual object that had own power to communicate with supernatural made of exotic material
obtained by 'power questing"



Question 18:
Power questing
Answer:
Making journeys to powerful places for personal prestige

, Question 19:
Pass through territories of different peoples Physically challenging
Answer:
Beyond 'known world' Spiritual journey



Question 20:
Ritual Objects and their purpose garments that have now decayed Musical instruments
Answer:
-Performance Appropriate ornamentation for ritual



Question 21:
Analogy- the smoking may indicate a ceremonial use. Similar usage of ceremonial smoking in
modern tribes
Answer:
Large caches of stone pipes-



Question 22:
-Symbols of authority?
Answer:
-Symbols of social or ritual affiliation



Question 23:
Charnel House
Answer:
Basins lined in clay used for cremation



Question 24:
Ranked society
Answer:
Ascribed status