ANT2100 Exam Questions and
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Nabonidus - ✔✔"First Archeologist", died in 538 BC, babylonian king who dug into the ziggurat in Iraq
Artifacts - ✔✔object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced
BC - ✔✔Before Christ
AD - ✔✔Anno Domini
CE - ✔✔Common Era
BCE - ✔✔Before Common Era
BP - ✔✔Before Present
Francesco Petrarch - ✔✔"Father of Humanism", looked to antiquity for moral philosophy
Ciriaco De' Pizzicolli - ✔✔Established modern discipline of archaeology
Coined "returning death to life"
Matthew Parker - ✔✔Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop, Formed Society of Antiquaries
Classical Archaeology - ✔✔the branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilization of the
mediterranean, such as greece and rome, and the near east.
Antiquarians - ✔✔Originally, someone who studied antiquities largely for the sake of the objects
themselves--not to understand the people or the culture that produced them.
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, Midden - ✔✔Refuse or deposit resulting from human activities, generally consisting of sediment; food
remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
Potsherd - ✔✔Fragment or property
Stratigraphy - ✔✔A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural
sediments into layers, or strata
Culture History - ✔✔Archaeology practiced in the 20th Cent. "explains" differences or changes over time
in artifact frequencies by positing the diffusion of ideas between neighboring cultures or the migration of
a people
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; sometimes called
processual archaeology.
C.B Moore - ✔✔Antiquarian; he performed excavations in Florida. steamboat named the Gopher.
Nels Nelson - ✔✔America's first "working" Archaeologist. Worked in FL. Felt archaeology should be
public, **Heavy on descriptions**
A.V "Ted" Kidder - ✔✔Founder of Anthropological Archaeology. Excavated Peco's Pueblo and Mayan
Region. Squeezed ceramics for chronological info.
James A. Ford - ✔✔Refined pottery development with process of seriation. Emphasis on Culture History.
Walter W. Taylor - ✔✔Urged archaeologists to forsake temples and instead study everyday people.
Proposed to quantify data and test hypothesis
Trait lists - ✔✔Used primarily to trace the movement of cultures across a landscape through time.
Walter W. Taylor - ✔✔Sought to study people's lives and not just beautiful artifacts (1950's). Published
very little.
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Nabonidus - ✔✔"First Archeologist", died in 538 BC, babylonian king who dug into the ziggurat in Iraq
Artifacts - ✔✔object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced
BC - ✔✔Before Christ
AD - ✔✔Anno Domini
CE - ✔✔Common Era
BCE - ✔✔Before Common Era
BP - ✔✔Before Present
Francesco Petrarch - ✔✔"Father of Humanism", looked to antiquity for moral philosophy
Ciriaco De' Pizzicolli - ✔✔Established modern discipline of archaeology
Coined "returning death to life"
Matthew Parker - ✔✔Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop, Formed Society of Antiquaries
Classical Archaeology - ✔✔the branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilization of the
mediterranean, such as greece and rome, and the near east.
Antiquarians - ✔✔Originally, someone who studied antiquities largely for the sake of the objects
themselves--not to understand the people or the culture that produced them.
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, Midden - ✔✔Refuse or deposit resulting from human activities, generally consisting of sediment; food
remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
Potsherd - ✔✔Fragment or property
Stratigraphy - ✔✔A site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural
sediments into layers, or strata
Culture History - ✔✔Archaeology practiced in the 20th Cent. "explains" differences or changes over time
in artifact frequencies by positing the diffusion of ideas between neighboring cultures or the migration of
a people
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; sometimes called
processual archaeology.
C.B Moore - ✔✔Antiquarian; he performed excavations in Florida. steamboat named the Gopher.
Nels Nelson - ✔✔America's first "working" Archaeologist. Worked in FL. Felt archaeology should be
public, **Heavy on descriptions**
A.V "Ted" Kidder - ✔✔Founder of Anthropological Archaeology. Excavated Peco's Pueblo and Mayan
Region. Squeezed ceramics for chronological info.
James A. Ford - ✔✔Refined pottery development with process of seriation. Emphasis on Culture History.
Walter W. Taylor - ✔✔Urged archaeologists to forsake temples and instead study everyday people.
Proposed to quantify data and test hypothesis
Trait lists - ✔✔Used primarily to trace the movement of cultures across a landscape through time.
Walter W. Taylor - ✔✔Sought to study people's lives and not just beautiful artifacts (1950's). Published
very little.
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