ANT2100 midterm Exam Questions
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Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology
unique from other disciplines that study humans? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Cultural
anthropology
Archaeology can best be defined as: - ✔✔The study of the past through the systematic
recovery and analysis of material remains.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of: - ✔✔How the social, cultural, and
political context of archaeology can influence its theories.
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by: -
✔✔Scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans
had indeed built the mounds.
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, 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? - ✔✔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: - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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. - ✔✔True
The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal laws, and
the systemic view of culture is: - ✔✔Postprocessual archaeology
Which of the following was not a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'? -
✔✔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: - ✔✔Documented the fact that humans had lived with now-extinct
animals in the distant past.
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Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology
unique from other disciplines that study humans? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Cultural
anthropology
Archaeology can best be defined as: - ✔✔The study of the past through the systematic
recovery and analysis of material remains.
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of: - ✔✔How the social, cultural, and
political context of archaeology can influence its theories.
Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by: -
✔✔Scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans
had indeed built the mounds.
Katelyn Whitman, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
, 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? - ✔✔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: - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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. - ✔✔True
The archaeological paradigm that rejects objectivity, the search for universal laws, and
the systemic view of culture is: - ✔✔Postprocessual archaeology
Which of the following was not a contribution to the discovery of 'deep time'? -
✔✔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: - ✔✔Documented the fact that humans had lived with now-extinct
animals in the distant past.
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