ASB 222 Exam 1 2025 Questions and
Answers
In an ideal world archeology... - ANSWER✔️✔️-reflects the past perfectly
Pompeii - ANSWER✔️✔️--Ash fell up to 6 inches an hour and made buildings collapse; Covered
buildings and people acting as a mold, ultimately preserving the forms of the perished people.
- Pyroclastic surge: pieces of volcanic debris that rolled down the mountain at extremely high
speeds; what really killed people
○ Erupted August 25th
Archeological Record - ANSWER✔️✔️-study of past behavior and formation processes (how
archeological records are formed)
Dynamic and Archeological Context - ANSWER✔️✔️-- Dynamic: actively being used in time
period
- Archeological: things we are looking at now from the past
Formation Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-- When dynamic context switches to archeological context
- Transform the material remnants of past behavior
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, - They can:
- Modify objects
- Move objects around
- Dissociate objects that were used together
- Can create spurious association between unrelated objects
Decrease/increase quantities of objects
Depositional Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Transforms material remnants from dynamic to
archeological context
Cultural Disturbance processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Change the materials within the archeological
record itself
- EX: looting
Preservation Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Affect the survival of material remains in archeological
context
Natural Disturbance Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Change the materials within the archeological
record itself
Archeological Data - ANSWER✔️✔️-- Minimal:
- Artifacts: are cultural, moveable objects
- Ecofacts: plant or animal remains
- Features: are non-portable object modified; in whole or in part; by human activity
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Answers
In an ideal world archeology... - ANSWER✔️✔️-reflects the past perfectly
Pompeii - ANSWER✔️✔️--Ash fell up to 6 inches an hour and made buildings collapse; Covered
buildings and people acting as a mold, ultimately preserving the forms of the perished people.
- Pyroclastic surge: pieces of volcanic debris that rolled down the mountain at extremely high
speeds; what really killed people
○ Erupted August 25th
Archeological Record - ANSWER✔️✔️-study of past behavior and formation processes (how
archeological records are formed)
Dynamic and Archeological Context - ANSWER✔️✔️-- Dynamic: actively being used in time
period
- Archeological: things we are looking at now from the past
Formation Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-- When dynamic context switches to archeological context
- Transform the material remnants of past behavior
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, - They can:
- Modify objects
- Move objects around
- Dissociate objects that were used together
- Can create spurious association between unrelated objects
Decrease/increase quantities of objects
Depositional Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Transforms material remnants from dynamic to
archeological context
Cultural Disturbance processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Change the materials within the archeological
record itself
- EX: looting
Preservation Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Affect the survival of material remains in archeological
context
Natural Disturbance Processes - ANSWER✔️✔️-Change the materials within the archeological
record itself
Archeological Data - ANSWER✔️✔️-- Minimal:
- Artifacts: are cultural, moveable objects
- Ecofacts: plant or animal remains
- Features: are non-portable object modified; in whole or in part; by human activity
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