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ANTH 202 Final Exam Questions Solved 100% Current Version () ___________ is an expedient way to find ancient encampments (open archaeological sites) that are buried 10m below the surface. - Answers A survey of deep cutback walls The concepts of Neolithic and Urban revolutions were developed by ________. - Answers V. Gordon Childe One of the earliest attempts to use the archaeological record to answer specific questions about the past was made by ___________. - Answers Monarch Nabondius The important book entitled Principles of Geology (1833) was written by ______. - Answers Charles Lyell Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) serves the same purposes as ________ & __________. - Answers Longitude & Latitude A hectare is roughly equal to ________. - Answers 2.5 acres ____________ is the study of ancient human modification of the environment. - Answers Landscape archaeology The most physically difficult surveying technique is ________. - Answers shovel testing Three point provenience data is comprised of _________, ________, & ________ data. - Answers horizontal (x), vertical (y), & elevation (z) Research designs are especially important for which of the following types of archaeological projects? - Answers Test excavation Large-scale excavations surveys Anthropology is the discipline that _________. - Answers Holistically studies mankind Prior to the 1950's, archaeologists _____________. - Answers Usually presented simple documentation Hidden Cave, which was excavated by the authors of your textbook, __________________. - Answers gave only limited insight into the lives of people who lived in the area. Based on the geological evidence, the footprints at Laetoli were determined to be ________________. - Answers approximately 3,500,000 years old. (3.5 million) ___________ is the cultural and natural actions that work together to create an archaeological site. - Answers Site formation _____________ attests that casual priority is assigned to the modes of production and reproduction, hence the Principles of Infrastructural Determinism. - Answers Cultural materialism Your textbook--Archaeology--was written by ____________. - Answers Robert Kelly & David Thomas Which of the following is NOT at ecofact? (woven grass basket, deer bone, charcoal, dried berries, mussel shell) - Answers Woven grass basket Which of the following field methods was most successful in finding unmarked graves at Matagorda Cemetery? - Answers Backhoe / gradall excavation What is post-processual archaeology? - Answers Views archaeology as inherently political and is more concerned with interpreting the past. What is the purpose of a vertical excavation? - Answers To expose a sequence of occupations in the same location. GPS (global positioning system), Brunton pocket transit, a notebook, markers, and Ziplock bags are part of _______. - Answers A surveyor's tool kit. An ex-slave named George McJunkin found the site known as _______. - Answers Folsom Which scholar confronted established archaeologists in the 1960's and 1970's with a new way of studying the past, and a new agenda for documenting archaeology? - Answers Lewis Binford Discovery of "Kennewick Man", __________ led to considerable controversy as to whether or not the remains were those of an ancient Native American. - Answers along the banks of the Columbia River, Washington As discussed in your textbook, paradigms provide overarching frameworks for understanding the _________. - Answers human condition The Richard Beene site is buried in 15m of fine-grained _________. - Answers alluvium Which of the following is not considered to be a major sub-discipline (subdivision) of anthropology? - Answers Primatology Post-processual archaeology __________. - Answers -Rejects scientific method as the sole source of knowledge -Archaeologists are subject to biases -Argues that all archaeology is unavoidably political -Rejects the systematic view of culture What diet staples can result in higher levels of carbon and nitrogen, respectively, in teeth and bones? - Answers Maize & Meat The _________ is archaeology's most basic unit of space-time systematic, combining both spatial and temporal patterns in material culture. - Answers Phase Faunal remains at an archaeological site can help archaeologists learn about ___________. - Answers -seasonality -socioeconomic status of individuals -amount of processing -approximate age of death ____________ is calculated by taking the number of examples of a given bone and dividing by the number of bones of that type which occur in an individual skeleton. - Answers MNI (minimum number of individuals) Camas is best dug ______ and is ________. - Answers in the late summer & not equally nutritious year round ___________ is a molecular analytical technique used to search for molecular signatures of inulin, a complex carbohydrate important in ancient diets around the world and on ancient FCR from Fort Hood, Texas. - Answers Raman Spectrometry The portion of the Kootenai River Valley, a region discussed often in lecture, is located in _________. - Answers Montana A _______ type is a ________ type that has temporal significance - Answers Temporal ; morphological An archaeologist is interested in dating a site that has fire-cracked rocks in earth ovens, no organic materials, and should be between 25,000 to 35,000 years old. Which dating method should the archaeologist use to better define the age of the site? - Answers Paleomagnetic At a site near a volcanic ash layer, archaeologists discovered human teeth, stone tool, and burned stones. Based on the tools found, the archaeologists suspects that the site is more than 70,000 years old, but younger than 90,000 years old. Which dating method should archaeologists use to better define the age of the site? - Answers Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)