ASB 222 FINAL EXPECTED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS (2026)
●● Relative dating
Answer: Artifacts in lower stratigraphic layers are older than those on
higher layers
●● Assessing the ratio of 12c to 14c
Answer: Radio carbon
●● Archaeology
Answer: The study of past human societies through their material
remains
●● Archaeologist are interested in
Answer: The innovation of agriculture, the peopling of the world and the
development of large and socially complex cities
●● Archaeological site
Answer: Ancient mammoth skeletons killed by a saber tooth tiger is
NOT
, ●● Ethnoarchaeology
Answer: Archeologist doing ethnography and archeologist focusing on
artifacts
●● Analogical thinking relies on
Answer: The logic/assumption that similar artifacts are used for similar
things, generally, because for follows function
●● Archaeologist use these methodological approaches
Answer: Ethnography, analogical and compassion, and experiments
artifact-making
●● Difference between history and prehistory
Answer: History uses written records and prehistory does not
●● Historical archaeology
Answer: Explanations that ascribe the building of ancient monuments of
extraterrestrial aliens
●● The famous rock art site of Lascaux was found by
Answer: Systematic survey
●● Lithic artifact types
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS (2026)
●● Relative dating
Answer: Artifacts in lower stratigraphic layers are older than those on
higher layers
●● Assessing the ratio of 12c to 14c
Answer: Radio carbon
●● Archaeology
Answer: The study of past human societies through their material
remains
●● Archaeologist are interested in
Answer: The innovation of agriculture, the peopling of the world and the
development of large and socially complex cities
●● Archaeological site
Answer: Ancient mammoth skeletons killed by a saber tooth tiger is
NOT
, ●● Ethnoarchaeology
Answer: Archeologist doing ethnography and archeologist focusing on
artifacts
●● Analogical thinking relies on
Answer: The logic/assumption that similar artifacts are used for similar
things, generally, because for follows function
●● Archaeologist use these methodological approaches
Answer: Ethnography, analogical and compassion, and experiments
artifact-making
●● Difference between history and prehistory
Answer: History uses written records and prehistory does not
●● Historical archaeology
Answer: Explanations that ascribe the building of ancient monuments of
extraterrestrial aliens
●● The famous rock art site of Lascaux was found by
Answer: Systematic survey
●● Lithic artifact types