ANT 2100 Exam 1 Questions and
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what do anthropologists study? - ✔✔human kind
Seasonal Variation Effect - ✔✔the ability to accurately cross date tree rings
within a limited region
What does the Mound-builder myth prove? - ✔✔That social, political, and
cultural beliefs can influence archaeological theories
Artifact's provenience is - ✔✔its horizontal and vertical positions in the
surrounding site matrix
What is goal of a ground reconnaissance survey? - ✔✔to find every site in
the region
Tell - ✔✔site humans have occupied over long periods of time (1,000's of
years)
artifact - ✔✔objects used, modified, or made by people
ecofact - ✔✔organic and environmental remains
features - ✔✔non-portable artifacts (hearths, postholes, floors, etc.)
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, typology - ✔✔systematic organization of artifacts into types on basis of
physical attributes
taphonomy - ✔✔study of site formation processes (includes cultural and
natural formation)
cultural formation - ✔✔deliberate or accidental activity of human beings
natural formation - ✔✔natural processes that effect the burial and survival
of archaeological remains
experimental archaeology - ✔✔study of past behavioral processes through
experimental reconstruction undder carefully controlled scientific conditions
Burial of the dead - ✔✔1. people do not bury themselves
2. artifacts are placed in burials intentionally
3. artifacts can tell us what others thought about the person buried (a
person's grave will represent that person's status)
Kebara, Israel - ✔✔60 kya burial, most complete Neanderthal skeleton
known
Lake Mungo 3, Australia - ✔✔60 - 40 kya? burial of modern individual,
covered in ochre -----> early art and ritual?
Sungir, Russia - ✔✔28 kya, elaborate burial of 60-y-o man wearing jewelry
and fancy tunic
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
what do anthropologists study? - ✔✔human kind
Seasonal Variation Effect - ✔✔the ability to accurately cross date tree rings
within a limited region
What does the Mound-builder myth prove? - ✔✔That social, political, and
cultural beliefs can influence archaeological theories
Artifact's provenience is - ✔✔its horizontal and vertical positions in the
surrounding site matrix
What is goal of a ground reconnaissance survey? - ✔✔to find every site in
the region
Tell - ✔✔site humans have occupied over long periods of time (1,000's of
years)
artifact - ✔✔objects used, modified, or made by people
ecofact - ✔✔organic and environmental remains
features - ✔✔non-portable artifacts (hearths, postholes, floors, etc.)
1
©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, typology - ✔✔systematic organization of artifacts into types on basis of
physical attributes
taphonomy - ✔✔study of site formation processes (includes cultural and
natural formation)
cultural formation - ✔✔deliberate or accidental activity of human beings
natural formation - ✔✔natural processes that effect the burial and survival
of archaeological remains
experimental archaeology - ✔✔study of past behavioral processes through
experimental reconstruction undder carefully controlled scientific conditions
Burial of the dead - ✔✔1. people do not bury themselves
2. artifacts are placed in burials intentionally
3. artifacts can tell us what others thought about the person buried (a
person's grave will represent that person's status)
Kebara, Israel - ✔✔60 kya burial, most complete Neanderthal skeleton
known
Lake Mungo 3, Australia - ✔✔60 - 40 kya? burial of modern individual,
covered in ochre -----> early art and ritual?
Sungir, Russia - ✔✔28 kya, elaborate burial of 60-y-o man wearing jewelry
and fancy tunic
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©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
