ANT2100 midterm UPDATED Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology unique from
other disciplines that study humans? - CORRECT ANSWER - Anthropology argues that
the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global, comparative, and holistic
perspective.
A specialist from which of the four subfields of anthropology would be most likely to study ritual
and kinship among people in contemporary societies? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cultural
anthropology
Archaeology can best be defined as: - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of the past
through the systematic recovery and analysis of material remains.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of: - CORRECT ANSWER - How the
social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories.
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by: - CORRECT
ANSWER - Scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the Native
Americans had indeed built the mounds.
Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept the fact that Native
Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Believing that a superior race had built the mounds fit nicely into
the social and political context of the times, helping to justify colonialism.
Low-level theories are: - CORRECT ANSWER - The observations and interpretations that
emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab work
, An example of a high-level theory would be a theory that seeks to answer which of the following
questions? - CORRECT ANSWER - Why did some societies evolve stratified social and
political systems whereas others remained egalitarian?
An ecofact is a plant or animal remain found at an archaeological site, to include bones, charcoal,
and pollen. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal laws, and the
systemic view of culture is: - CORRECT ANSWER - Postprocessual archaeology
Which of the following was not a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'? - CORRECT
ANSWER - travels of Giovanni Battista Belzoni throughout England and Ireland and his
knowledge of hydraulics
Charles Lyell's 1865 book The Geologic Evidences for the Antiquity of Man was important
because it: - CORRECT ANSWER - Documented the fact that humans had lived with
now-extinct animals in the distant past.
The year AD 1859 was an important year in the history of human thought because it was the year
that: - CORRECT ANSWER - Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species
A "midden" is: - CORRECT ANSWER - a refuse deposit resulting from human activities.
"Stratigraphy" is - CORRECT ANSWER - A site's physical structure produced by the
deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.
A. V. Kidder (1886-1963) demonstrated that potsherds are archaeologically important because
they can provide evidence of: - CORRECT ANSWER - Cultural relationships among
various prehistoric groups.
and CORRECT Answers
Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology unique from
other disciplines that study humans? - CORRECT ANSWER - Anthropology argues that
the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global, comparative, and holistic
perspective.
A specialist from which of the four subfields of anthropology would be most likely to study ritual
and kinship among people in contemporary societies? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cultural
anthropology
Archaeology can best be defined as: - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of the past
through the systematic recovery and analysis of material remains.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of: - CORRECT ANSWER - How the
social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories.
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by: - CORRECT
ANSWER - Scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the Native
Americans had indeed built the mounds.
Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept the fact that Native
Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Believing that a superior race had built the mounds fit nicely into
the social and political context of the times, helping to justify colonialism.
Low-level theories are: - CORRECT ANSWER - The observations and interpretations that
emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab work
, An example of a high-level theory would be a theory that seeks to answer which of the following
questions? - CORRECT ANSWER - Why did some societies evolve stratified social and
political systems whereas others remained egalitarian?
An ecofact is a plant or animal remain found at an archaeological site, to include bones, charcoal,
and pollen. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal laws, and the
systemic view of culture is: - CORRECT ANSWER - Postprocessual archaeology
Which of the following was not a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'? - CORRECT
ANSWER - travels of Giovanni Battista Belzoni throughout England and Ireland and his
knowledge of hydraulics
Charles Lyell's 1865 book The Geologic Evidences for the Antiquity of Man was important
because it: - CORRECT ANSWER - Documented the fact that humans had lived with
now-extinct animals in the distant past.
The year AD 1859 was an important year in the history of human thought because it was the year
that: - CORRECT ANSWER - Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species
A "midden" is: - CORRECT ANSWER - a refuse deposit resulting from human activities.
"Stratigraphy" is - CORRECT ANSWER - A site's physical structure produced by the
deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.
A. V. Kidder (1886-1963) demonstrated that potsherds are archaeologically important because
they can provide evidence of: - CORRECT ANSWER - Cultural relationships among
various prehistoric groups.
