ANT2100 Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Social Organization - CORRECT ANSWER - -rules and structures that govern
relationships within a group of interacting people
residential groups appear in the archaeological record as - CORRECT ANSWER -
households and villages
Nonresidential groups are manifested archaeologically through the use of - CORRECT
ANSWER - Symbols, ceremonies, mythologies, or insignias of membership
Political organization - CORRECT ANSWER - -the formal and informal institutions that
regulate a society collective acts.
-Control may be at level of residential or nonresidential level
Four broad areas of human social and political behavior: - CORRECT ANSWER - gender,
kinship, social status, and trade
From artifacts to symbols - CORRECT ANSWER - -information about social and political
organization is derived from artifacts
-Artifacts are not just "things" but symbols
-How an artifact enters the archeological record is often a project of what it means
people manipulate material culture to send culturally specific symbolic messages - CORRECT
ANSWER - ex: bringing flowers to dinner as a way to thank a host is a culturally-specific
standard American way to socially interact; Mikea, the forager-horticulturalists, expect guests to
bring tabacco
some societies recognize men who live as women or women who live as men as a - CORRECT
ANSWER - third gender
, in some plains Indian tribes, berdaches were - CORRECT ANSWER - men who chose to
live as a women performing women roles
Androcentric - CORRECT ANSWER - a perspective that focuses on what men do in a
society, to the exclusion of women
examples of androcentric - CORRECT ANSWER - -hunting weaponry assumed to be
always male, plant collecting gear always female
-burials with atlals in the indian knoll site
The BaMbuti - CORRECT ANSWER - -live in the Ituri Forest of Central Africa and are
hunter gatherers
-nearly all exchange meat for agricultural produce with their neighbors the
Bantu(horticulturalists)
-Two kind of BaMbuti societies differ in hunting technology
Reconstructing male and female activities from archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - -for
decades the field was male-dominated
-half of all professional archaeologists in the US today are women
ceramics made by hand were - CORRECT ANSWER - women
ceramics made by wheel were - CORRECT ANSWER - men
The Maya remarkable art style was often depicted on (6 things) - CORRECT ANSWER -
stone stelae, polychrome, pottery, paintings, carvings, and codices
Gender in Maya Iconography - CORRECT ANSWER - -images commonly depict Maya
wearing intricate costumes
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Social Organization - CORRECT ANSWER - -rules and structures that govern
relationships within a group of interacting people
residential groups appear in the archaeological record as - CORRECT ANSWER -
households and villages
Nonresidential groups are manifested archaeologically through the use of - CORRECT
ANSWER - Symbols, ceremonies, mythologies, or insignias of membership
Political organization - CORRECT ANSWER - -the formal and informal institutions that
regulate a society collective acts.
-Control may be at level of residential or nonresidential level
Four broad areas of human social and political behavior: - CORRECT ANSWER - gender,
kinship, social status, and trade
From artifacts to symbols - CORRECT ANSWER - -information about social and political
organization is derived from artifacts
-Artifacts are not just "things" but symbols
-How an artifact enters the archeological record is often a project of what it means
people manipulate material culture to send culturally specific symbolic messages - CORRECT
ANSWER - ex: bringing flowers to dinner as a way to thank a host is a culturally-specific
standard American way to socially interact; Mikea, the forager-horticulturalists, expect guests to
bring tabacco
some societies recognize men who live as women or women who live as men as a - CORRECT
ANSWER - third gender
, in some plains Indian tribes, berdaches were - CORRECT ANSWER - men who chose to
live as a women performing women roles
Androcentric - CORRECT ANSWER - a perspective that focuses on what men do in a
society, to the exclusion of women
examples of androcentric - CORRECT ANSWER - -hunting weaponry assumed to be
always male, plant collecting gear always female
-burials with atlals in the indian knoll site
The BaMbuti - CORRECT ANSWER - -live in the Ituri Forest of Central Africa and are
hunter gatherers
-nearly all exchange meat for agricultural produce with their neighbors the
Bantu(horticulturalists)
-Two kind of BaMbuti societies differ in hunting technology
Reconstructing male and female activities from archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - -for
decades the field was male-dominated
-half of all professional archaeologists in the US today are women
ceramics made by hand were - CORRECT ANSWER - women
ceramics made by wheel were - CORRECT ANSWER - men
The Maya remarkable art style was often depicted on (6 things) - CORRECT ANSWER -
stone stelae, polychrome, pottery, paintings, carvings, and codices
Gender in Maya Iconography - CORRECT ANSWER - -images commonly depict Maya
wearing intricate costumes
