Test Bank for Ancient Lives: An
Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory,
6e Brian Fagan (All Chapters)
Chapter 1
1 Modern archaeologists use the remains of a civilization to
(A) study the human past.
(B) reconstruct ancient city plans.
(C) enrich themselves and their benefactors.
(D) confirm existing hypotheses about the origin of the species.
Answer: (A) study the human past.
Feedback: The answer is study the human past.
2 World prehistory evaluates the prehistory of humankind from the perspective of a
(A) single region.
(B) single person.
(C) person living during prehistoric times.
(D) global perspective.
Answer: (D) global perspective.
Feedback: The answer is global perspective.
3 Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the earliest human beings before written
history?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (A) prehistoric archaeology
Feedback: The answer is prehistoric archaeology.
4 Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the culture and artifacts of the earliest
humans, including stone technology and art?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (B) paleoanthropology
,Feedback: The answer is paleoanthropology.
5 Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the remains of the great civilizations of
ancient Greece and Rome?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (C) classical archaeology
Feedback: The answer is classical archaeology
6 Which subdiscipline of archaeology would require knowledge of hieroglyphics?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (D) Egyptology
Feedback: The answer is Egyptology.
7 Biologists Charles Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould both hypothesized that humanity
originated in
(A) Africa.
(B) the Middle East.
(C) Australia.
(D) North America.
Answer: (A) Africa.
Feedback: The answer is Africa.
8 Explain why it is important to study archaeology. How could the lessons learned from
archaeology be applied to modern-day race relations?
Answer:
9 Define garbagology. How do the lessons learned from this modern archaeological method
compare with those learned from archaeological digs in ancient Rome?
Answer:
10 List the four major developments in human prehistory. Which of these developments do you
believe is the most significant? Why?
Answer:
11 Discuss whether archaeologists be allowed to dig up burial sites and settlements of places
considered holy.
Answer:
12 Radiocarbon dating is a method of determining the age of an artifact based on
, (A) the decay rates of radiocarbon isotopes.
(B) the number of nuclei present in organic matter.
(C) the radiocarbon spectrum of the geological record.
(D) in situ clues from surrounding artifacts.
Answer: (A) the decay rates of radiocarbon isotopes.
Feedback: The answer is the decay rates of radiocarbon isotopes.
13 Cultural resource management (CRM) of archaeological sites and artifacts
(A) has always been mandated by law in all countries of the world.
(B) is a way to protect the past.
(C) is the method used by countries to prevent archaeologists from other countries from excavating.
(D) has largely been discredited in recent years.
Answer: (B) is a way to protect the past.
Feedback: The answer is is a way to protect the past.
14 He was a businessperson-turned-archaeologist who discovered the remains of the city of
Troy.
(A) Archbishop James Ussher
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) Austen Henry Layard
(D) Heinrich Schliemann
Answer: (D) Heinrich Schliemann
Feedback: The answer is Heinrich Schliemann.
15 Prehistory is the period before the
(A) advent of written records.
(B) period of the dinosaurs.
(C) archaeological record.
(D) publication of On the Origin of Species.
Answer: (A) advent of written records.
Feedback: The answer is advent of written records.
16 British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley reconstructed
(A) an Ur funeral.
(B) Noah's ark.
(C) Abu Simbel.
(D) Tenochtitlán.
Answer: (A) an Ur funeral.
Feedback: The answer is an Ur funeral.
, 17 Copán, Guatemala, was a major Maya center during the
(A) 15th century.
(B) 16th century.
(C) mid-first millennium A.D.
(D) American Revolution.
Answer: (C) mid-first millennium A.D.
Feedback: The answer is mid-first millennium A.D.
18 Which late 19th-century German archaeologist and his colleagues are credited with
transforming excavation from hunting for treasure to a careful scientific process of
chronicling the past?
(A) Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
(B) Howard Carter
(C) Arthur Evans
(D) Alexander Cross
Answer: (D) Alexander Cross
Feedback: The answer is Alexander Cross.
19 Which two early women archaeologists bucked the stereotype of male excavators and
worked in the field in the Syrian desert and in Crete, respectively?
(A) Gertrude Bell and Harriet Hawes
(B) Christian Hillaire and Jean-Marie Chauvet
(C) Amelia Botta and Mildred Austen Layard
(D) Virginia Apgar and Alice Hamilton
Answer: (A) Gertrude Bell and Harriet Hawes
Feedback: The answer is Gertrude Bell and Harriet Hawes.
20 Before he was a treasure hunter, Giovanni Battista Belzoni was a(n)
(A) army general.
(B) historian.
(C) circus strongman.
(D) priest.
Answer: (C) circus strongman.
Feedback: The answer is a circus strongman.
21 The library of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal contained an account of
(A) a flood similar to the one described in Genesis.
(B) manna falling from the skies.
(C) the founding of the ancient city of Carchemish.
(D) the first Olympic games.
Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory,
6e Brian Fagan (All Chapters)
Chapter 1
1 Modern archaeologists use the remains of a civilization to
(A) study the human past.
(B) reconstruct ancient city plans.
(C) enrich themselves and their benefactors.
(D) confirm existing hypotheses about the origin of the species.
Answer: (A) study the human past.
Feedback: The answer is study the human past.
2 World prehistory evaluates the prehistory of humankind from the perspective of a
(A) single region.
(B) single person.
(C) person living during prehistoric times.
(D) global perspective.
Answer: (D) global perspective.
Feedback: The answer is global perspective.
3 Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the earliest human beings before written
history?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (A) prehistoric archaeology
Feedback: The answer is prehistoric archaeology.
4 Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the culture and artifacts of the earliest
humans, including stone technology and art?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (B) paleoanthropology
,Feedback: The answer is paleoanthropology.
5 Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the remains of the great civilizations of
ancient Greece and Rome?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (C) classical archaeology
Feedback: The answer is classical archaeology
6 Which subdiscipline of archaeology would require knowledge of hieroglyphics?
(A) prehistoric archaeology
(B) paleoanthropology
(C) classical archaeology
(D) Egyptology
Answer: (D) Egyptology
Feedback: The answer is Egyptology.
7 Biologists Charles Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould both hypothesized that humanity
originated in
(A) Africa.
(B) the Middle East.
(C) Australia.
(D) North America.
Answer: (A) Africa.
Feedback: The answer is Africa.
8 Explain why it is important to study archaeology. How could the lessons learned from
archaeology be applied to modern-day race relations?
Answer:
9 Define garbagology. How do the lessons learned from this modern archaeological method
compare with those learned from archaeological digs in ancient Rome?
Answer:
10 List the four major developments in human prehistory. Which of these developments do you
believe is the most significant? Why?
Answer:
11 Discuss whether archaeologists be allowed to dig up burial sites and settlements of places
considered holy.
Answer:
12 Radiocarbon dating is a method of determining the age of an artifact based on
, (A) the decay rates of radiocarbon isotopes.
(B) the number of nuclei present in organic matter.
(C) the radiocarbon spectrum of the geological record.
(D) in situ clues from surrounding artifacts.
Answer: (A) the decay rates of radiocarbon isotopes.
Feedback: The answer is the decay rates of radiocarbon isotopes.
13 Cultural resource management (CRM) of archaeological sites and artifacts
(A) has always been mandated by law in all countries of the world.
(B) is a way to protect the past.
(C) is the method used by countries to prevent archaeologists from other countries from excavating.
(D) has largely been discredited in recent years.
Answer: (B) is a way to protect the past.
Feedback: The answer is is a way to protect the past.
14 He was a businessperson-turned-archaeologist who discovered the remains of the city of
Troy.
(A) Archbishop James Ussher
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) Austen Henry Layard
(D) Heinrich Schliemann
Answer: (D) Heinrich Schliemann
Feedback: The answer is Heinrich Schliemann.
15 Prehistory is the period before the
(A) advent of written records.
(B) period of the dinosaurs.
(C) archaeological record.
(D) publication of On the Origin of Species.
Answer: (A) advent of written records.
Feedback: The answer is advent of written records.
16 British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley reconstructed
(A) an Ur funeral.
(B) Noah's ark.
(C) Abu Simbel.
(D) Tenochtitlán.
Answer: (A) an Ur funeral.
Feedback: The answer is an Ur funeral.
, 17 Copán, Guatemala, was a major Maya center during the
(A) 15th century.
(B) 16th century.
(C) mid-first millennium A.D.
(D) American Revolution.
Answer: (C) mid-first millennium A.D.
Feedback: The answer is mid-first millennium A.D.
18 Which late 19th-century German archaeologist and his colleagues are credited with
transforming excavation from hunting for treasure to a careful scientific process of
chronicling the past?
(A) Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
(B) Howard Carter
(C) Arthur Evans
(D) Alexander Cross
Answer: (D) Alexander Cross
Feedback: The answer is Alexander Cross.
19 Which two early women archaeologists bucked the stereotype of male excavators and
worked in the field in the Syrian desert and in Crete, respectively?
(A) Gertrude Bell and Harriet Hawes
(B) Christian Hillaire and Jean-Marie Chauvet
(C) Amelia Botta and Mildred Austen Layard
(D) Virginia Apgar and Alice Hamilton
Answer: (A) Gertrude Bell and Harriet Hawes
Feedback: The answer is Gertrude Bell and Harriet Hawes.
20 Before he was a treasure hunter, Giovanni Battista Belzoni was a(n)
(A) army general.
(B) historian.
(C) circus strongman.
(D) priest.
Answer: (C) circus strongman.
Feedback: The answer is a circus strongman.
21 The library of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal contained an account of
(A) a flood similar to the one described in Genesis.
(B) manna falling from the skies.
(C) the founding of the ancient city of Carchemish.
(D) the first Olympic games.
