ASB 222 EXAM SCRIPT FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
◉ Trilithon . Answer: Set of three stones, two uprights and one lintel, at
Stonehenge. There are five trilithons at Stonehenge
◉ Sarsen . Answer: The thirty upright stones at Stonehenge. Each
warden is over 3 m tall and weighs 55,000 pounds.
◉ Lintels . Answer: Horizontal cross-members of the Stonehenge
monument
◉ Megalithic . Answer: Related to the construction of large stone
monuments. The megalithic culture erected thousands of these
monuments beginning more than 5,000 years ago.
◉ Poverty Point Culture . Answer: Dating to about 3600 years ago, the
Poverty Point site located in Louisiana appears to have been a
ceremonial center for a geographically widespread culture located across
the American South.
, ◉ Affluent Foragers . Answer: People who lived in resource-priviledged
regions. The Jomon of Japan and the native people of the northwest
coast of North America are examples of affluent foragers.
◉ Chiefdom . Answer: A level of sociopolitical 9integration more
complex than the tribe but less so than the state. The social system is
ranked, not egalitarian.
◉ Mesopotamia . Answer: The land between the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers in modern Iraq.
◉ Hassunan . Answer: Culture in Mesopotamia dating from 8000 to
7200 BP. Characterized by small farming villages where subsistence was
based on the growing of wheat, barley, peas, and lentils.
◉ Samarran . Answer: Neolithic culture of southern Mesopotamia.
Dating to after 7500 years ago, Samarran sites are located in the
floodplain of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
◉ Halafian . Answer: Culture in Mesopotamia dating from 7500 to 6700
BP. Halafian sites generally are small farming villages.
◉ Tholoi . Answer: A new architectural form seen at Halafian sites in
Mesopotamia, dating to after 7500 years ago. Tholoi appear to have been
communal storage facilities for these Neolithic people.
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
◉ Trilithon . Answer: Set of three stones, two uprights and one lintel, at
Stonehenge. There are five trilithons at Stonehenge
◉ Sarsen . Answer: The thirty upright stones at Stonehenge. Each
warden is over 3 m tall and weighs 55,000 pounds.
◉ Lintels . Answer: Horizontal cross-members of the Stonehenge
monument
◉ Megalithic . Answer: Related to the construction of large stone
monuments. The megalithic culture erected thousands of these
monuments beginning more than 5,000 years ago.
◉ Poverty Point Culture . Answer: Dating to about 3600 years ago, the
Poverty Point site located in Louisiana appears to have been a
ceremonial center for a geographically widespread culture located across
the American South.
, ◉ Affluent Foragers . Answer: People who lived in resource-priviledged
regions. The Jomon of Japan and the native people of the northwest
coast of North America are examples of affluent foragers.
◉ Chiefdom . Answer: A level of sociopolitical 9integration more
complex than the tribe but less so than the state. The social system is
ranked, not egalitarian.
◉ Mesopotamia . Answer: The land between the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers in modern Iraq.
◉ Hassunan . Answer: Culture in Mesopotamia dating from 8000 to
7200 BP. Characterized by small farming villages where subsistence was
based on the growing of wheat, barley, peas, and lentils.
◉ Samarran . Answer: Neolithic culture of southern Mesopotamia.
Dating to after 7500 years ago, Samarran sites are located in the
floodplain of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
◉ Halafian . Answer: Culture in Mesopotamia dating from 7500 to 6700
BP. Halafian sites generally are small farming villages.
◉ Tholoi . Answer: A new architectural form seen at Halafian sites in
Mesopotamia, dating to after 7500 years ago. Tholoi appear to have been
communal storage facilities for these Neolithic people.
