ASB 222 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Analogical thinking relies on - ✔✔The logic/assumption that similar artifacts are used
for similar things, generally, because for follows function
✔✔Archaeologist use these methodological approaches - ✔✔Ethnography, analogical
and compassion, and experiments artifact-making
✔✔Difference between history and prehistory - ✔✔History uses written records and
prehistory does not
✔✔Historical archaeology - ✔✔Explanations that ascribe the building of ancient
monuments of extraterrestrial aliens
✔✔The famous rock art site of Lascaux was found by - ✔✔Systematic survey
✔✔Lithic artifact types - ✔✔Flake, core, biface. NOT sherd
✔✔Considered the first major innovation in lithic technology - ✔✔Bifacial Flaking
✔✔Lithics are important because of their - ✔✔Ubiquity. NOT ease in interpreting, or
beauty
✔✔When did humans first reach Sahul - ✔✔40,000 y/a
✔✔Modifying global climate patters - ✔✔Not a way that humans have impacted their
environment
✔✔Pleistocene climate patterns - ✔✔Oscillating periods of expanding and retreating
glaciers
✔✔Volcanic rocks can be dated with - ✔✔Potassium-argon dating
, ✔✔Earliest evidence for early hominin technology dates to - ✔✔3.4 million years ago
✔✔Evolution of homosapiens - ✔✔Africa
✔✔Bioarcheological remains - ✔✔Cant be determined the personality of an individual
✔✔Agriculture consequence - ✔✔Increase of population density
✔✔Not bioarcheological methods - ✔✔Chemistry, paleopathology, and genetics
✔✔importance of ceramic artifacts - ✔✔Highly variable in time and space
✔✔important pottery production processes - ✔✔Temperature, amount of water vs. clay,
and type of inclusion material
✔✔The study of clan and inclusions in pottery - ✔✔Individual variation in recipes,
functional information on pottery and trading networks for raw materials can be learned
✔✔Younger Dryas - ✔✔Cooler, drier weather around 10,000 BC
✔✔Agriculture in the near east brought - ✔✔more warfare and large, dense settlements
✔✔Abu Hureyra peoples responded to Younger Dryas - ✔✔First diversified grasses and
then intensified rye cultivation
✔✔Animals domesticated by the people of Mesoamerica - ✔✔Ducks, bees, and turkeys
✔✔Predominant plant seed in Mesoamerica - ✔✔Maize
✔✔Revolutionary Agriculture - ✔✔Allowed for higher population density, impact plant
evolution and became more sedentary
✔✔Analysis of clay and inclusions - ✔✔Determine whether a pot was made using local
or non-local materials
✔✔Dependence on domesticated fauna at Ain ghazal - ✔✔Area suffered environmental
degredation
✔✔Increase in dental caries (cavities) in skeletal remains - ✔✔Associated with the
arrival of agriculture
✔✔Domesticated plants differ from their wild relatives - ✔✔Larger and/or more fruit,
impaired seed-dispersal mechanisms, require humans to help reproduction
✔✔Analogical thinking relies on - ✔✔The logic/assumption that similar artifacts are used
for similar things, generally, because for follows function
✔✔Archaeologist use these methodological approaches - ✔✔Ethnography, analogical
and compassion, and experiments artifact-making
✔✔Difference between history and prehistory - ✔✔History uses written records and
prehistory does not
✔✔Historical archaeology - ✔✔Explanations that ascribe the building of ancient
monuments of extraterrestrial aliens
✔✔The famous rock art site of Lascaux was found by - ✔✔Systematic survey
✔✔Lithic artifact types - ✔✔Flake, core, biface. NOT sherd
✔✔Considered the first major innovation in lithic technology - ✔✔Bifacial Flaking
✔✔Lithics are important because of their - ✔✔Ubiquity. NOT ease in interpreting, or
beauty
✔✔When did humans first reach Sahul - ✔✔40,000 y/a
✔✔Modifying global climate patters - ✔✔Not a way that humans have impacted their
environment
✔✔Pleistocene climate patterns - ✔✔Oscillating periods of expanding and retreating
glaciers
✔✔Volcanic rocks can be dated with - ✔✔Potassium-argon dating
, ✔✔Earliest evidence for early hominin technology dates to - ✔✔3.4 million years ago
✔✔Evolution of homosapiens - ✔✔Africa
✔✔Bioarcheological remains - ✔✔Cant be determined the personality of an individual
✔✔Agriculture consequence - ✔✔Increase of population density
✔✔Not bioarcheological methods - ✔✔Chemistry, paleopathology, and genetics
✔✔importance of ceramic artifacts - ✔✔Highly variable in time and space
✔✔important pottery production processes - ✔✔Temperature, amount of water vs. clay,
and type of inclusion material
✔✔The study of clan and inclusions in pottery - ✔✔Individual variation in recipes,
functional information on pottery and trading networks for raw materials can be learned
✔✔Younger Dryas - ✔✔Cooler, drier weather around 10,000 BC
✔✔Agriculture in the near east brought - ✔✔more warfare and large, dense settlements
✔✔Abu Hureyra peoples responded to Younger Dryas - ✔✔First diversified grasses and
then intensified rye cultivation
✔✔Animals domesticated by the people of Mesoamerica - ✔✔Ducks, bees, and turkeys
✔✔Predominant plant seed in Mesoamerica - ✔✔Maize
✔✔Revolutionary Agriculture - ✔✔Allowed for higher population density, impact plant
evolution and became more sedentary
✔✔Analysis of clay and inclusions - ✔✔Determine whether a pot was made using local
or non-local materials
✔✔Dependence on domesticated fauna at Ain ghazal - ✔✔Area suffered environmental
degredation
✔✔Increase in dental caries (cavities) in skeletal remains - ✔✔Associated with the
arrival of agriculture
✔✔Domesticated plants differ from their wild relatives - ✔✔Larger and/or more fruit,
impaired seed-dispersal mechanisms, require humans to help reproduction
