ASB 222 Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
the goals of archaeology include - ANSWER✔️✔️-A. Discovering evidence of the human past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
C. Reconstructing past lives and societies
ALL OF THE ABOVE !!
Archaeology applies scientific methods and theories to the material remains of past cultures to
understand human behavior. - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
Which of the following places the four types of human societies in order from smallest in size and
least complex, to largest in size and most complex. - ANSWER✔️✔️-Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms,
States
Radiocarbon dating can date things that lived up to 500,000 years ago - ANSWER✔️✔️-false
An objects provenience is its location in horizontal and vertical space - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
Excavation reveals - ANSWER✔️✔️-A. The three dimensional patterning of the site
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, B. The temporal and spatial relationship among artifacts in three dimensional space
A and B only
Archaeology is a historical science - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
Which of the following is NOT a goal of archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-got this wrong
NOT-RECONSTRUCTING HUMAN CULTURAL HISTORY
Archaeologists that live in other cultures to learn about how artifacts are made and used are called -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Ethnoarchaeologists
You are an archaeologists excavating a site and you find an artifact of a type you've never seen
before. Which method would NOT help you figure out what the artifact was used for in the past? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Survey
The second human diaspora, when humans colonized much of the planet including Australia, and
the Americas occurred when? - ANSWER✔️✔️-10-50 kya
The development of complex language helps separate modern humans from our earlier ancestors -
ANSWER✔️✔️-True
What tool tradition, featuring standardized bifaces, was produced by Homo erectus? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Acheulean
Two major hypotheses explaining the origins of modern humans are - ANSWER✔️✔️-The
multiregional model vs the out-of-Africa model
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Answers
Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
the goals of archaeology include - ANSWER✔️✔️-A. Discovering evidence of the human past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
C. Reconstructing past lives and societies
ALL OF THE ABOVE !!
Archaeology applies scientific methods and theories to the material remains of past cultures to
understand human behavior. - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
Which of the following places the four types of human societies in order from smallest in size and
least complex, to largest in size and most complex. - ANSWER✔️✔️-Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms,
States
Radiocarbon dating can date things that lived up to 500,000 years ago - ANSWER✔️✔️-false
An objects provenience is its location in horizontal and vertical space - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
Excavation reveals - ANSWER✔️✔️-A. The three dimensional patterning of the site
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, B. The temporal and spatial relationship among artifacts in three dimensional space
A and B only
Archaeology is a historical science - ANSWER✔️✔️-true
Which of the following is NOT a goal of archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-got this wrong
NOT-RECONSTRUCTING HUMAN CULTURAL HISTORY
Archaeologists that live in other cultures to learn about how artifacts are made and used are called -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Ethnoarchaeologists
You are an archaeologists excavating a site and you find an artifact of a type you've never seen
before. Which method would NOT help you figure out what the artifact was used for in the past? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Survey
The second human diaspora, when humans colonized much of the planet including Australia, and
the Americas occurred when? - ANSWER✔️✔️-10-50 kya
The development of complex language helps separate modern humans from our earlier ancestors -
ANSWER✔️✔️-True
What tool tradition, featuring standardized bifaces, was produced by Homo erectus? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Acheulean
Two major hypotheses explaining the origins of modern humans are - ANSWER✔️✔️-The
multiregional model vs the out-of-Africa model
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