ANT 2100 Midterm – FSU Exam Q&A
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What is "In a Grove" about? - ✔✔7 characters tell an officer about a dead
samurai they found near by a woodcutter in Kyoto. The person who we
assume killed this man is Tajomaru.
What are the subfields of anthropology? - ✔✔1. Linguistic
2. Archaeology
3. Cultural
4. Biological
What are the goals of archaeology? - ✔✔- When/Where/How did humans
live in the past?
- Why did changes take place in past human societies?
- Why are some sites/artifacts preserved and not others?
- Preserve the past for the future.
Classical Archaeology - ✔✔The branch of archaeology that studies the
"classical" civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome,
and the Near East.
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, Prehistoric archaeology - ✔✔typically cultures that did not have written
records.
- New World - before arrival of Europeans
- Old World - Bronze age
Historic Archaeology - ✔✔study of cultures that have written history. Known
as the "contact period archaeology".
- In some places the period when Europeans were arriving and interacting
with native people
- time of European contact until Revolutionary War
Moundville - ✔✔Extensive archaeological investigation has shown that the
site was the political and ceremonial center of a regionally organized
Mississippian culture chiefdom polity
- it is the 2nd largest site of the classic Middle Mississippian era
What is archaeology? - ✔✔- a subfield under anthropology
- Mindset and set of technologies and methodologies
- Study of humans and their material traces
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What is "In a Grove" about? - ✔✔7 characters tell an officer about a dead
samurai they found near by a woodcutter in Kyoto. The person who we
assume killed this man is Tajomaru.
What are the subfields of anthropology? - ✔✔1. Linguistic
2. Archaeology
3. Cultural
4. Biological
What are the goals of archaeology? - ✔✔- When/Where/How did humans
live in the past?
- Why did changes take place in past human societies?
- Why are some sites/artifacts preserved and not others?
- Preserve the past for the future.
Classical Archaeology - ✔✔The branch of archaeology that studies the
"classical" civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome,
and the Near East.
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©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, Prehistoric archaeology - ✔✔typically cultures that did not have written
records.
- New World - before arrival of Europeans
- Old World - Bronze age
Historic Archaeology - ✔✔study of cultures that have written history. Known
as the "contact period archaeology".
- In some places the period when Europeans were arriving and interacting
with native people
- time of European contact until Revolutionary War
Moundville - ✔✔Extensive archaeological investigation has shown that the
site was the political and ceremonial center of a regionally organized
Mississippian culture chiefdom polity
- it is the 2nd largest site of the classic Middle Mississippian era
What is archaeology? - ✔✔- a subfield under anthropology
- Mindset and set of technologies and methodologies
- Study of humans and their material traces
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