ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 Exam
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Artifact - ✔✔Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans
Classical Archaeology - ✔✔The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilizations of the
Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
Anitquarian - ✔✔People who were fascinated by ancient objects but who rarely used those objects to
reconstruct the past
Antiquarians - ✔✔Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the earliest ____________
Middens - ✔✔Trash heaps people created generally consisting of sediment; food remains such as charred
seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
Middens - ✔✔Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae discovered what was seemingly shell piles on the Danish
shores were actually _____________.
Potsherd - ✔✔Fragment of pottery
Alfred Vincent Kidder - ✔✔The founder of Anthropological archaeology, followed and separated
particular strata, distinctive layers of earth, to construct a cultural chronology, used intensive artifact
analysis
Gertrude Caton-Thompson - ✔✔First archaeologist to excavate village sites in Egypt, showed there was
more to learning about the past than the 'huge monuments.'
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, Stratigraphy - ✔✔A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural
sediments into layers.
Culture History - ✔✔The kind of archaeology practiced mainly in the early to mid-twentieth century that
documented how material culture changed over time and space.
H. Marie Wormington - ✔✔Her book Ancient Man demonstrated the shift from a concern with things to
a concern with thinking from things; first female president of the Society for American Archaeology.
Lewis R. Binford - ✔✔Archaeology's "angry young man," argued, archaeology must transcend potsherds
and spear points to address larger issues, such as cultural evolution, ecology, and social organization -
became known as "new archaeology"
New Archaeology - ✔✔An approach to archaeology that arose in the 1960s, emphasizing the
understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method; today's version of
this is sometimes called processual archaeology.
People typically use their vision of the past to justify their actions in the present. - ✔✔Why is the study of
the past controversial?
Studying the past depends on recognizing a past. - ✔✔How was the rise of archaeology connected to the
discovery of humanity's "deep" antiquity?
Thinking from things - ✔✔What makes an archaeologist an archaeologist?
Anthropology - ✔✔The study of all aspects of humankind— biological, cultural, and linguistic; extant
and extinct—employing a holistic, comparative approach and the concept of culture.
Participant Observation - ✔✔Gathering data by personally questioning and observing people while
actually living in their society.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Artifact - ✔✔Any movable object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans
Classical Archaeology - ✔✔The branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilizations of the
Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
Anitquarian - ✔✔People who were fascinated by ancient objects but who rarely used those objects to
reconstruct the past
Antiquarians - ✔✔Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the earliest ____________
Middens - ✔✔Trash heaps people created generally consisting of sediment; food remains such as charred
seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
Middens - ✔✔Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae discovered what was seemingly shell piles on the Danish
shores were actually _____________.
Potsherd - ✔✔Fragment of pottery
Alfred Vincent Kidder - ✔✔The founder of Anthropological archaeology, followed and separated
particular strata, distinctive layers of earth, to construct a cultural chronology, used intensive artifact
analysis
Gertrude Caton-Thompson - ✔✔First archaeologist to excavate village sites in Egypt, showed there was
more to learning about the past than the 'huge monuments.'
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, Stratigraphy - ✔✔A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural
sediments into layers.
Culture History - ✔✔The kind of archaeology practiced mainly in the early to mid-twentieth century that
documented how material culture changed over time and space.
H. Marie Wormington - ✔✔Her book Ancient Man demonstrated the shift from a concern with things to
a concern with thinking from things; first female president of the Society for American Archaeology.
Lewis R. Binford - ✔✔Archaeology's "angry young man," argued, archaeology must transcend potsherds
and spear points to address larger issues, such as cultural evolution, ecology, and social organization -
became known as "new archaeology"
New Archaeology - ✔✔An approach to archaeology that arose in the 1960s, emphasizing the
understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method; today's version of
this is sometimes called processual archaeology.
People typically use their vision of the past to justify their actions in the present. - ✔✔Why is the study of
the past controversial?
Studying the past depends on recognizing a past. - ✔✔How was the rise of archaeology connected to the
discovery of humanity's "deep" antiquity?
Thinking from things - ✔✔What makes an archaeologist an archaeologist?
Anthropology - ✔✔The study of all aspects of humankind— biological, cultural, and linguistic; extant
and extinct—employing a holistic, comparative approach and the concept of culture.
Participant Observation - ✔✔Gathering data by personally questioning and observing people while
actually living in their society.
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