ASU ASB 222 EXAM 1 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-talking rationally about ancient things
How old does something need to be for archaeologists to study it? - ANSWER✔️✔️-3.3 million
years ago to 5.4 thousand years ago
What do archaeologists do? - ANSWER✔️✔️-•Collect evidence systematically
•Conduct experiments
•Formulate hypotheses to account for data
•Test hypotheses against more data
•Come-up with interpretations / models: descriptions that best summarize the patterns observed in
data
•Are always aware that their data depend on their assumptions
•They are responsible for the protection of the material they unearth and towards the people who
may be affected
What are the responsibilities of the archaeologist? - ANSWER✔️✔️-•Discovery of past material
remains (material culture)
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•Scientific analysis of these remains and their ordering in space and time
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•Exercise in creative imagination combined with painstaking task of interpretation, so that we
understand 'what it all means' for the human story
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•Responsibility of conserving the world's cultural heritage against looting and unnecessary
destruction
•Responsibility towards the public
What ideas needed to be accepted for modern archaeology to begin? - ANSWER✔️✔️-1) Great
antiquity of humanity
2) Darwin's principle of evolution
3) Three Age System for organizing material
What did these newly accepted ideas provide archaeology? - ANSWER✔️✔️-•Human cultures
evolve, like plants and animals do
•
•We can devise schemes to describe the evolution of artifact forms
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-talking rationally about ancient things
How old does something need to be for archaeologists to study it? - ANSWER✔️✔️-3.3 million
years ago to 5.4 thousand years ago
What do archaeologists do? - ANSWER✔️✔️-•Collect evidence systematically
•Conduct experiments
•Formulate hypotheses to account for data
•Test hypotheses against more data
•Come-up with interpretations / models: descriptions that best summarize the patterns observed in
data
•Are always aware that their data depend on their assumptions
•They are responsible for the protection of the material they unearth and towards the people who
may be affected
What are the responsibilities of the archaeologist? - ANSWER✔️✔️-•Discovery of past material
remains (material culture)
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, •
•Scientific analysis of these remains and their ordering in space and time
•
•Exercise in creative imagination combined with painstaking task of interpretation, so that we
understand 'what it all means' for the human story
•
•Responsibility of conserving the world's cultural heritage against looting and unnecessary
destruction
•Responsibility towards the public
What ideas needed to be accepted for modern archaeology to begin? - ANSWER✔️✔️-1) Great
antiquity of humanity
2) Darwin's principle of evolution
3) Three Age System for organizing material
What did these newly accepted ideas provide archaeology? - ANSWER✔️✔️-•Human cultures
evolve, like plants and animals do
•
•We can devise schemes to describe the evolution of artifact forms
•
FOR STUDY PURPOSES ONLY COPYRIGHT © 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
