ANT2100 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology unique from
other disciplines that study humans?
A. anthropology argues that the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global,
comparative and holistic perspective
B. anthropology examines only one aspect of the human condition, but does so in great detail
C. anthropology examines the social and cultural aspects of humanity, but leaves the biological
aspect of humans to other disciplines
D. anthropology focuses only on exotic people and cultures, while other disciplines are more apt
to study in American or European society - CORRECT ANSWER - A. anthropology
argues that the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global, comparative, and
the holistic perspective
A specialist from which of the four sub-fields of anthropology would be most likely to study
ritual and kinship among people in contemporary societies?
A. archaeology
B. cultural anthropology
C. linguistic anthropology
D. biological anthropology
,E. bioarchaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - B. cultural anthropology
Archaeology can be be defined as?
A. the study of humans in all times and places
B. the study of biological aspect of humans
C. the study of the past through the systematic recovery and analysis of material remains
D. the study of past and present human cultures through written records and oral history
E. the study of ancient physical remains - CORRECT ANSWER - C. the study of the past
through the systematic recovery and analysis of material remains
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an examples of?
A. how the social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories
B. the infallibility of science
C. how more civilized cultures (the Moundbuilders) can be destroyed by less civilized cultures
(the Native Americans)
D. how pseudoarchaeology can be useful to professional archaeologists
E. how to provide ourselves with an innate sense of superiority and right to dispossess Native
Americans today - CORRECT ANSWER - A. how the social, cultural, and political
context of archaeology can influence its theories
,Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by?
A. supporting Squier's and Davis's conclusions
B. scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans had indeed
built the mounds
C. demonstrating once and for all through the testing of multiple hypotheses that the Native
Americans had not built the mounds
D. collecting empirical data to test the idea that Moundbuilders were a lost race
E. practicing in the Indian Wars - CORRECT ANSWER - B. scientifically evaluating
previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans had indeed built the mounds
Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept the fact that Native
Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys?
A. believing that a superior race had built the mounds fir nicely into the social and political
context of the times, helping to justify colonialism
B. archaeological and historical evidence to suggest that Native Americans had built the mounds
was completely lacking
C. It was a conscious effort on the part of racist archaeologists to steal Native American land;
everyone really knew that the Native Americans had built the mounds
D. westward expansion had not yet begun; European colonists were therefore unfamiliar with
how similar the mounds really were to the mounds actively being constructed by living Native
Americans
, E. no one really accepted the explanation, but it was part of the history books - CORRECT
ANSWER - A. believing that a superior race built the mounds fit nicely into the social and
political context of the times, helping to justify colonialism
Low level theories are?
A. hypotheses that link archaeological observations with the human behavior or natural
processes that produced them
B. theories that seek to answer large "why" questions
C. the observations and interpretations that emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab
work
D. easily falsified
E. the most difficult to test - CORRECT ANSWER - C. the observations and
interpretations that emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab work
An example of a high-level theory would be a theory that seeks to answer which of the following
questions?
A. why are all of these artifacts clustered around this hearth, or fire pit
B. why do we believe that this stone tool was used to process plant material rather than to
butcher an animal
C. why did some societies evolve stratified social and political systems whereas others remained
egalitarian
and CORRECT Answers
Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology unique from
other disciplines that study humans?
A. anthropology argues that the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global,
comparative and holistic perspective
B. anthropology examines only one aspect of the human condition, but does so in great detail
C. anthropology examines the social and cultural aspects of humanity, but leaves the biological
aspect of humans to other disciplines
D. anthropology focuses only on exotic people and cultures, while other disciplines are more apt
to study in American or European society - CORRECT ANSWER - A. anthropology
argues that the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global, comparative, and
the holistic perspective
A specialist from which of the four sub-fields of anthropology would be most likely to study
ritual and kinship among people in contemporary societies?
A. archaeology
B. cultural anthropology
C. linguistic anthropology
D. biological anthropology
,E. bioarchaeology - CORRECT ANSWER - B. cultural anthropology
Archaeology can be be defined as?
A. the study of humans in all times and places
B. the study of biological aspect of humans
C. the study of the past through the systematic recovery and analysis of material remains
D. the study of past and present human cultures through written records and oral history
E. the study of ancient physical remains - CORRECT ANSWER - C. the study of the past
through the systematic recovery and analysis of material remains
The Moundbuilder Myth provides an examples of?
A. how the social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories
B. the infallibility of science
C. how more civilized cultures (the Moundbuilders) can be destroyed by less civilized cultures
(the Native Americans)
D. how pseudoarchaeology can be useful to professional archaeologists
E. how to provide ourselves with an innate sense of superiority and right to dispossess Native
Americans today - CORRECT ANSWER - A. how the social, cultural, and political
context of archaeology can influence its theories
,Cyrus Thomas contributed to dispelling the Myth of the Moundbuilders by?
A. supporting Squier's and Davis's conclusions
B. scientifically evaluating previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans had indeed
built the mounds
C. demonstrating once and for all through the testing of multiple hypotheses that the Native
Americans had not built the mounds
D. collecting empirical data to test the idea that Moundbuilders were a lost race
E. practicing in the Indian Wars - CORRECT ANSWER - B. scientifically evaluating
previous claims and concluding that the Native Americans had indeed built the mounds
Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept the fact that Native
Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys?
A. believing that a superior race had built the mounds fir nicely into the social and political
context of the times, helping to justify colonialism
B. archaeological and historical evidence to suggest that Native Americans had built the mounds
was completely lacking
C. It was a conscious effort on the part of racist archaeologists to steal Native American land;
everyone really knew that the Native Americans had built the mounds
D. westward expansion had not yet begun; European colonists were therefore unfamiliar with
how similar the mounds really were to the mounds actively being constructed by living Native
Americans
, E. no one really accepted the explanation, but it was part of the history books - CORRECT
ANSWER - A. believing that a superior race built the mounds fit nicely into the social and
political context of the times, helping to justify colonialism
Low level theories are?
A. hypotheses that link archaeological observations with the human behavior or natural
processes that produced them
B. theories that seek to answer large "why" questions
C. the observations and interpretations that emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab
work
D. easily falsified
E. the most difficult to test - CORRECT ANSWER - C. the observations and
interpretations that emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab work
An example of a high-level theory would be a theory that seeks to answer which of the following
questions?
A. why are all of these artifacts clustered around this hearth, or fire pit
B. why do we believe that this stone tool was used to process plant material rather than to
butcher an animal
C. why did some societies evolve stratified social and political systems whereas others remained
egalitarian
