ANTH 202 40 Study Questions Chapter 4 Questions & Answers: Guaranteed A+ Guide

Page 1 of 10 Nurturing Students with knowledge . Ensuring success with Test answers Join the Journey!! For any queries/ more documents email: NEW 1. Decomposition is carried out by microorganisms that require: a. cold, oxygen, and water to survive. b. warmth, carbon dioxid e, and water to survive. c. warmth, oxygen, and dry conditions to survive. d. warmth, oxygen, and water to survive. d. warmth, oxygen, and water to survive. 2. The key to maintaining information about an artifact's context is to record: a. archaeologist's name. b. artifact's material. c. provenience. d. date of discovery. c. provenience. 3. The duck decoys of Lovelock Cave, Nevada illustrate: a. that caves were important habitation sites throughout Great Basin prehistory. b. the importance of context in a rchaeological excavations. c. the amazing degree of preservation possible in dry caves. d. all of the above. d. all of the above. 4. Which of the following is true about the Pleistocene? a. It was a geologic period lasting from 2 million to 10 thousand ye ars ago. b. It was characterized by periods of extensive glaciation. c. Many species of now extinct fauna existed during the Pleistocene. d. All of the answers are correct. d. All of the answers are correct. 5. Provenience refers to: ANTH 202 Study Questions: Chapter 4 ( 40 QUESTIONS ) Page 2 of 10 Nurturing Students with knowledge . Ensuring success with Test answers Join the Journey!! For any queries/ more documents email: NEW a. the relationship o f an artifact, ecofact, or feature to other artifacts, ecofacts, features, and geologic strata in a site. b. the artifact's location relative to a system of spatial data collection. c. the position of the archaeologist when documenting a site. d. an outdat ed way to map a site. b. the artifact's location relative to a system of spatial data collection. . When archaeologists dig excavation units, they are concerned with: a. horizontal provenience. b. vertical provenience. c. keeping the walls of the unit str aight and perpendicular. d. All of the answers are correct. d. All of the answers are correct. 7. Which of the following were the textbook authors, Thomas and Kelly, interested in mapping at Gatecliff? a. The location of any artifacts found in situ b. The location of any features, such as hearths c. The location of any large ecofacts d. All of the answers are correct. d. All of the answers are correct. 8. A total station, or EDM, is a device that: a. allows the boundaries of archaeological sites to be obj ectively determined. b. efficiently and accurately analyzes artifacts found during survey. c. uses a beam of infrared light bounced off a prism to determine an artifact's provenience. d. uses triangulation from radio waves received from satellites to deter mine your position, either in terms of latitude and longitude or the UTM grid. c. uses a beam of infrared light bounced off a prism to determine an artifact's provenience. 9. Why do archaeologists use a datum point rather than simply measuring from the gro und surface? a. The datum point provides a universal reference point that can be used across any archaeological site, allowing archaeologists to easily compare data between excavations. b. While vertical provenience could easily be measured from the groun d surface, obtaining accurate horizontal provenience would be much more difficult without a datum point.