ANT 2100 - Midterm Ch. 1-2 UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Artifact - CORRECT ANSWER - Any movable object that has been used, modified, or
manufactured by humans
Classical Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - The branch of archaeology that studies
the "classical" civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
Anitquarian - CORRECT ANSWER - People who were fascinated by ancient objects but
who rarely used those objects to reconstruct the past
Antiquarians - CORRECT ANSWER - Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the earliest
____________
Middens - CORRECT ANSWER - Trash heaps people created generally consisting of
sediment; food remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
Middens - CORRECT ANSWER - Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae discovered what was
seemingly shell piles on the Danish shores were actually _____________.
Potsherd - CORRECT ANSWER - Fragment of pottery
Alfred Vincent Kidder - CORRECT ANSWER - The founder of Anthropological
archaeology, followed and separated particular strata, distinctive layers of earth, to construct a
cultural chronology, used intensive artifact analysis
Gertrude Caton-Thompson - CORRECT ANSWER - First archaeologist to excavate
village sites in Egypt, showed there was more to learning about the past than the 'huge
monuments.'
, Stratigraphy - CORRECT ANSWER - A site's physical structure produced by the
deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.
Culture History - CORRECT ANSWER - The kind of archaeology practiced mainly in the
early to mid-twentieth century that documented how material culture changed over time and
space.
H. Marie Wormington - CORRECT ANSWER - Her book Ancient Man demonstrated the
shift from a concern with things to a concern with thinking from things; first female president of
the Society for American Archaeology.
Lewis R. Binford - CORRECT ANSWER - Archaeology's "angry young man," argued,
archaeology must transcend potsherds and spear points to address larger issues, such as cultural
evolution, ecology, and social organization - became known as "new archaeology"
New Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - An approach to archaeology that arose in the
1960s, emphasizing the understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the
scientific method; today's version of this is sometimes called processual archaeology.
People typically use their vision of the past to justify their actions in the present. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Why is the study of the past controversial?
Studying the past depends on recognizing a past. - CORRECT ANSWER - How was the
rise of archaeology connected to the discovery of humanity's "deep" antiquity?
Thinking from things - CORRECT ANSWER - What makes an archaeologist an
archaeologist?
Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of all aspects of humankind—
biological, cultural, and linguistic; extant and extinct—employing a holistic, comparative
approach and the concept of culture.
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Artifact - CORRECT ANSWER - Any movable object that has been used, modified, or
manufactured by humans
Classical Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - The branch of archaeology that studies
the "classical" civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
Anitquarian - CORRECT ANSWER - People who were fascinated by ancient objects but
who rarely used those objects to reconstruct the past
Antiquarians - CORRECT ANSWER - Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the earliest
____________
Middens - CORRECT ANSWER - Trash heaps people created generally consisting of
sediment; food remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
Middens - CORRECT ANSWER - Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae discovered what was
seemingly shell piles on the Danish shores were actually _____________.
Potsherd - CORRECT ANSWER - Fragment of pottery
Alfred Vincent Kidder - CORRECT ANSWER - The founder of Anthropological
archaeology, followed and separated particular strata, distinctive layers of earth, to construct a
cultural chronology, used intensive artifact analysis
Gertrude Caton-Thompson - CORRECT ANSWER - First archaeologist to excavate
village sites in Egypt, showed there was more to learning about the past than the 'huge
monuments.'
, Stratigraphy - CORRECT ANSWER - A site's physical structure produced by the
deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.
Culture History - CORRECT ANSWER - The kind of archaeology practiced mainly in the
early to mid-twentieth century that documented how material culture changed over time and
space.
H. Marie Wormington - CORRECT ANSWER - Her book Ancient Man demonstrated the
shift from a concern with things to a concern with thinking from things; first female president of
the Society for American Archaeology.
Lewis R. Binford - CORRECT ANSWER - Archaeology's "angry young man," argued,
archaeology must transcend potsherds and spear points to address larger issues, such as cultural
evolution, ecology, and social organization - became known as "new archaeology"
New Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - An approach to archaeology that arose in the
1960s, emphasizing the understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the
scientific method; today's version of this is sometimes called processual archaeology.
People typically use their vision of the past to justify their actions in the present. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Why is the study of the past controversial?
Studying the past depends on recognizing a past. - CORRECT ANSWER - How was the
rise of archaeology connected to the discovery of humanity's "deep" antiquity?
Thinking from things - CORRECT ANSWER - What makes an archaeologist an
archaeologist?
Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of all aspects of humankind—
biological, cultural, and linguistic; extant and extinct—employing a holistic, comparative
approach and the concept of culture.
