ASB222 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers
Question 1:
An adaptation is:
a "strategy" for survival a change in behavior an invented pattern
an improvement or refinement in some biological characteristic
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system divided human history into which
Answer:
a "strategy" for survival
Question 2:
Pliocene, Miocene, Pleistocene
Answer:
Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic
Question 3:
Stone, Bronze, Iron
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system was based on a perceived regular pattern of
change through time in human:
technology intelligence
Answer:
Stone, Bronze, Iron social systems
Question 4:
religion
Answer:
Technology
Question 5:
A. Bishop Ussher is best known for his:
acceptance of a uniformitarian perspective support of empiricism
belief in an ancient and changing earth
determination that the world was created by God in 4004
B. C.
Answer:
,determination that the
Question 6:
The flint implements found by Boucher de Perthes were dated on the basis of: radiocarbon
datingpotassium/argon dating
Answer:
world was created by God in 4004 B.C. stratigraphy
Question 7:
The flint implements found by Boucher de Perthes were dated on the basis of: radiocarbon
dating
potassium/argon dating
Answer:
world was created by God in 4004 B.C. stratigraphy
Question 8:
seriation
Answer:
stratigraphy
Question 9:
The statement "The operations of nature are equable and steady" reflects: the uniformitarian
perspective
an anti-evolutionary perspective a biblical perspective
a catastrophist perspective characterized as:
unilineal multilineal
Answer:
the uniformitarian perspective
Question 10:
Thomsen's three-age system reflected a view of cultural evolution that can best be cyclical
biblical
Answer:
unilineal
, Question 11:
French customs official Jacques Boucher de Perthes thought that the hundreds of flint Somme
in northern France dated to:
more than 1 million years ago the time of the pyramids
Answer:
tools he found in his excavations in the high gravel terrace overlooking the River the Middle
Ages
Question 12:
a period before Noah's Flood
Answer:
a period before Noah's Flood
Question 13:
b and c
Absolute dates are:
those that we are confident are accurate based on radioactive decay
Answer:
b and c
Question 14:
those that allow us to apply an age or range of years to an archaeological specimen
Archaeological material that was moved from its place of manufacture or use to a separate
disposal area is called:
debitage primary refuse
Answer:
all of the above - absolute refuse
Question 15:
secondary refuse
Answer:
secondary refuse
Question 1:
An adaptation is:
a "strategy" for survival a change in behavior an invented pattern
an improvement or refinement in some biological characteristic
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system divided human history into which
Answer:
a "strategy" for survival
Question 2:
Pliocene, Miocene, Pleistocene
Answer:
Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic
Question 3:
Stone, Bronze, Iron
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system was based on a perceived regular pattern of
change through time in human:
technology intelligence
Answer:
Stone, Bronze, Iron social systems
Question 4:
religion
Answer:
Technology
Question 5:
A. Bishop Ussher is best known for his:
acceptance of a uniformitarian perspective support of empiricism
belief in an ancient and changing earth
determination that the world was created by God in 4004
B. C.
Answer:
,determination that the
Question 6:
The flint implements found by Boucher de Perthes were dated on the basis of: radiocarbon
datingpotassium/argon dating
Answer:
world was created by God in 4004 B.C. stratigraphy
Question 7:
The flint implements found by Boucher de Perthes were dated on the basis of: radiocarbon
dating
potassium/argon dating
Answer:
world was created by God in 4004 B.C. stratigraphy
Question 8:
seriation
Answer:
stratigraphy
Question 9:
The statement "The operations of nature are equable and steady" reflects: the uniformitarian
perspective
an anti-evolutionary perspective a biblical perspective
a catastrophist perspective characterized as:
unilineal multilineal
Answer:
the uniformitarian perspective
Question 10:
Thomsen's three-age system reflected a view of cultural evolution that can best be cyclical
biblical
Answer:
unilineal
, Question 11:
French customs official Jacques Boucher de Perthes thought that the hundreds of flint Somme
in northern France dated to:
more than 1 million years ago the time of the pyramids
Answer:
tools he found in his excavations in the high gravel terrace overlooking the River the Middle
Ages
Question 12:
a period before Noah's Flood
Answer:
a period before Noah's Flood
Question 13:
b and c
Absolute dates are:
those that we are confident are accurate based on radioactive decay
Answer:
b and c
Question 14:
those that allow us to apply an age or range of years to an archaeological specimen
Archaeological material that was moved from its place of manufacture or use to a separate
disposal area is called:
debitage primary refuse
Answer:
all of the above - absolute refuse
Question 15:
secondary refuse
Answer:
secondary refuse
