ASB 222-Final Exam 2025 Questions
and Answers
When an archaeologist attempts to find sites with a conservation goal in mind, s/he is trying to
identify the potential damage of a proposed project by finding any archaeological sites in its path. -
ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
Archaeological theories - ANSWER✔️✔️-Explain and describe the past, provide a broad
explanatory framework for material evidence, are based on existing evidence and research
Archaeological site is: - ANSWER✔️✔️-A cluster of artifacts, and a place where activities once
took place
Four methods for chronometrically dating the past are... - ANSWER✔️✔️-Potassium-Argon
dating, Radio Carbon dating, Historical documents, and Dendrochronology
The four types of human societies in order from smallest in size and least complex, to the largest in
size and most complex: - ANSWER✔️✔️-Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, States
Stratigraphy is a relative chronology method where objects are dated in relation to each other by
which layer they are associated. - ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
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, Archaeologists that live in other cultures to learn about how artifacts are made and used are called: -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Ethno archaeologists
Archaeology without excavation - ANSWER✔️✔️-is called non-invasive archaeology
The goals of archaeology include: - ANSWER✔️✔️-Discovering evidence of the human past,
reconstructing cultural history around the world, and reconstructing past lives and societies
Archaeology is a historical science. - ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
Knapping is: - ANSWER✔️✔️-Hammering flakes off a stone core to create tools
__________is used in archaeology to compare ancient artifacts to modern ones to reconstruct past
activities. - ANSWER✔️✔️-Analogy
Biologically modern humans - ANSWER✔️✔️-Appear by about 200,000 years ago and are distinct
from behaviorally modern humans
The last glaciation (during the Late Pleistocene) was marked by large continental ice sheets, and a
cool, dry climate, and drop in sea level. - ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
You are an archaeologist 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✔️✔️-1. Survey, Analogy, ethno archaeology, experimental archaeology
Early human populations lived in harmony w/ their surroundings, and never affected their
environment - ANSWER✔️✔️-FALSE
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and Answers
When an archaeologist attempts to find sites with a conservation goal in mind, s/he is trying to
identify the potential damage of a proposed project by finding any archaeological sites in its path. -
ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
Archaeological theories - ANSWER✔️✔️-Explain and describe the past, provide a broad
explanatory framework for material evidence, are based on existing evidence and research
Archaeological site is: - ANSWER✔️✔️-A cluster of artifacts, and a place where activities once
took place
Four methods for chronometrically dating the past are... - ANSWER✔️✔️-Potassium-Argon
dating, Radio Carbon dating, Historical documents, and Dendrochronology
The four types of human societies in order from smallest in size and least complex, to the largest in
size and most complex: - ANSWER✔️✔️-Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, States
Stratigraphy is a relative chronology method where objects are dated in relation to each other by
which layer they are associated. - ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
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, Archaeologists that live in other cultures to learn about how artifacts are made and used are called: -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Ethno archaeologists
Archaeology without excavation - ANSWER✔️✔️-is called non-invasive archaeology
The goals of archaeology include: - ANSWER✔️✔️-Discovering evidence of the human past,
reconstructing cultural history around the world, and reconstructing past lives and societies
Archaeology is a historical science. - ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
Knapping is: - ANSWER✔️✔️-Hammering flakes off a stone core to create tools
__________is used in archaeology to compare ancient artifacts to modern ones to reconstruct past
activities. - ANSWER✔️✔️-Analogy
Biologically modern humans - ANSWER✔️✔️-Appear by about 200,000 years ago and are distinct
from behaviorally modern humans
The last glaciation (during the Late Pleistocene) was marked by large continental ice sheets, and a
cool, dry climate, and drop in sea level. - ANSWER✔️✔️-TRUE
You are an archaeologist 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✔️✔️-1. Survey, Analogy, ethno archaeology, experimental archaeology
Early human populations lived in harmony w/ their surroundings, and never affected their
environment - ANSWER✔️✔️-FALSE
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