ANT 2100 Test Set Questions &
Revised Correct Detailed Answers
1. Antiquarianism - ANSWER Of or relating to antiquarians or to the study
or collecting of antiquities.
2. Speculation - ANSWER The forming of a theory or conjecture without
firm evidence. Rampant at the beginning of archaeology.
3. Etruscan Painting - ANSWER Difficult to analyse due to state of
preservation, found in tombs. Painted underground tomb -around 650BC
4. Etruscan Statuary - ANSWER Masterful, found on temples!
5. Pompeii - ANSWER Site of one of the first excavations. Buried under
volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Rediscovered in 1748.
Initially the attraction was ancient artifacts which evolved until it influenced
style. Recorded excavations begun in 1860.
6. Etruscan Horses (Tarquinia) - ANSWER On the top margin of an
Etruscan temple. Very realistic. Made around 650 BC, 2000 years before we
had large clay figures. Demonstrate a high level of human artistic expertise.
7. Issue of Fakes - ANSWER Very lucrative. People create fakes in order to
sell them.
,8. Looting - ANSWER People dig up artifacts in order to sell them.
Destroyed many sites, still a problem in many areas.
9. Issue of value of an artifact - ANSWER Worth a lot of money on the
black market.
10. Early Museums - ANSWER Started as a place to store, collect and
display artifacts.
11. Extinct Species - ANSWER Some species of humans are extinct too as
well as animals.
12. Dinosaurs - ANSWER 65 million years old. An example of megafauna.
13. Megafauna - ANSWER True Dinosaurs (65 milllion) abound along with
other more recent (50000 years old) critters. Mammoths, mastodons, saber
tooth cats, giant armadillos, short faced cave bears, tapir.
14. Sue - ANSWER Found at the Chicago Field Museum, this is a large
skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
15. Fairy Arrows - ANSWER One of the early explanations for stone blades.
16. Petrified Lightning Bolts - ANSWER One of the early explanations for
stone blades.
, 17. Mummies and Bog Bodies - ANSWER Popping up and intriguing
people.
18. Bog bodies: These preserved human remains have survived due to being
immersed in marshy, waterlogged environment in the peat of Northern
Europe.
19. Ethnography - ANSWER A subset of cultural anthropology concerned
with the study of contemporary cultures through first-hand observation.
10. Ethnographic studies of 'traditional', 'native', 'other' people - different
tradition than what could be observed in Europe - makes a clearer connection to
Anthropology.
11. Mission San Luis - ANSWER Reconstruction of an Appalachee settlement.
12. 'Testing' the Historic Record - ANSWER Early historic accounts of New
World people are useful but always have to be carefully examined because
they're not always 100% accurate. (ethnohistoric approach)
13. Fish Weirs - ANSWER Used to trap fish, prominent in Florida.
14. Thomas Jefferson - ANSWER (1743-1826). He conducted the first
scientific excavation in Virginia in 1784 at a burial mound on his property.
15. First US archaeologist. His work had little actual impact though. He used
stratigraphy, deductive reasoning and reported what he did and thought. He
Revised Correct Detailed Answers
1. Antiquarianism - ANSWER Of or relating to antiquarians or to the study
or collecting of antiquities.
2. Speculation - ANSWER The forming of a theory or conjecture without
firm evidence. Rampant at the beginning of archaeology.
3. Etruscan Painting - ANSWER Difficult to analyse due to state of
preservation, found in tombs. Painted underground tomb -around 650BC
4. Etruscan Statuary - ANSWER Masterful, found on temples!
5. Pompeii - ANSWER Site of one of the first excavations. Buried under
volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Rediscovered in 1748.
Initially the attraction was ancient artifacts which evolved until it influenced
style. Recorded excavations begun in 1860.
6. Etruscan Horses (Tarquinia) - ANSWER On the top margin of an
Etruscan temple. Very realistic. Made around 650 BC, 2000 years before we
had large clay figures. Demonstrate a high level of human artistic expertise.
7. Issue of Fakes - ANSWER Very lucrative. People create fakes in order to
sell them.
,8. Looting - ANSWER People dig up artifacts in order to sell them.
Destroyed many sites, still a problem in many areas.
9. Issue of value of an artifact - ANSWER Worth a lot of money on the
black market.
10. Early Museums - ANSWER Started as a place to store, collect and
display artifacts.
11. Extinct Species - ANSWER Some species of humans are extinct too as
well as animals.
12. Dinosaurs - ANSWER 65 million years old. An example of megafauna.
13. Megafauna - ANSWER True Dinosaurs (65 milllion) abound along with
other more recent (50000 years old) critters. Mammoths, mastodons, saber
tooth cats, giant armadillos, short faced cave bears, tapir.
14. Sue - ANSWER Found at the Chicago Field Museum, this is a large
skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
15. Fairy Arrows - ANSWER One of the early explanations for stone blades.
16. Petrified Lightning Bolts - ANSWER One of the early explanations for
stone blades.
, 17. Mummies and Bog Bodies - ANSWER Popping up and intriguing
people.
18. Bog bodies: These preserved human remains have survived due to being
immersed in marshy, waterlogged environment in the peat of Northern
Europe.
19. Ethnography - ANSWER A subset of cultural anthropology concerned
with the study of contemporary cultures through first-hand observation.
10. Ethnographic studies of 'traditional', 'native', 'other' people - different
tradition than what could be observed in Europe - makes a clearer connection to
Anthropology.
11. Mission San Luis - ANSWER Reconstruction of an Appalachee settlement.
12. 'Testing' the Historic Record - ANSWER Early historic accounts of New
World people are useful but always have to be carefully examined because
they're not always 100% accurate. (ethnohistoric approach)
13. Fish Weirs - ANSWER Used to trap fish, prominent in Florida.
14. Thomas Jefferson - ANSWER (1743-1826). He conducted the first
scientific excavation in Virginia in 1784 at a burial mound on his property.
15. First US archaeologist. His work had little actual impact though. He used
stratigraphy, deductive reasoning and reported what he did and thought. He
