ASB 222 midterm Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
3 goals of archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-1. Cultural History (to build a time and space framework
for the past).
2. Cultural Reconstruction (to understand how humans lived in the past, reconstructing ancient
lifeways).
3. Cultural Process (to answer the "why" questions of human prehistory, explaining cultural
changes).
3 steps of scientific method - ANSWER✔️✔️-observation, hypothesis, experiment
Abu Hureyra (indicators of Neolithic life) - ANSWER✔️✔️--the first site to document the direct
effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement.
-presence of animals on-site, shifting animal management strategies
-potential uses for animal dung (including as a fuel and a construction material)
-syria
agriculture - ANSWER✔️✔️-the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for
the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
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, Animism (what, when, evidence) - ANSWER✔️✔️-what-belief in innumerable spiritual beings
concerned with human affairs and capable of helping or harming human interests.
WHEN-paleo era
EVIDENCE-animal figs
Anthropogenic - ANSWER✔️✔️-Human-induced changes on the natural environment
Archaeological culture - ANSWER✔️✔️-recurring assemblage of types of artifacts, buildings and
monuments from a specific period and region that may constitute the material culture remains of a
particular past human society
archaeological record - ANSWER✔️✔️-(1) artifacts, (2) ecofacts, (3) structures, and (4) features
associated with human activity.
Archaeologist vs. Antiquarian - ANSWER✔️✔️-archaeologist is generally affiliated with artifacts,
or the things which human left behind, whereas, an antiquarian is concerned with his own private
collection and study of history.
Archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation
of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
Archaeozoologist - ANSWER✔️✔️-study of animal remains
artifact - ANSWER✔️✔️-an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or
historical interest.
Assemblage - ANSWER✔️✔️-a group of different artifacts found in association with one another
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Questions and Answers
3 goals of archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-1. Cultural History (to build a time and space framework
for the past).
2. Cultural Reconstruction (to understand how humans lived in the past, reconstructing ancient
lifeways).
3. Cultural Process (to answer the "why" questions of human prehistory, explaining cultural
changes).
3 steps of scientific method - ANSWER✔️✔️-observation, hypothesis, experiment
Abu Hureyra (indicators of Neolithic life) - ANSWER✔️✔️--the first site to document the direct
effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement.
-presence of animals on-site, shifting animal management strategies
-potential uses for animal dung (including as a fuel and a construction material)
-syria
agriculture - ANSWER✔️✔️-the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for
the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
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, Animism (what, when, evidence) - ANSWER✔️✔️-what-belief in innumerable spiritual beings
concerned with human affairs and capable of helping or harming human interests.
WHEN-paleo era
EVIDENCE-animal figs
Anthropogenic - ANSWER✔️✔️-Human-induced changes on the natural environment
Archaeological culture - ANSWER✔️✔️-recurring assemblage of types of artifacts, buildings and
monuments from a specific period and region that may constitute the material culture remains of a
particular past human society
archaeological record - ANSWER✔️✔️-(1) artifacts, (2) ecofacts, (3) structures, and (4) features
associated with human activity.
Archaeologist vs. Antiquarian - ANSWER✔️✔️-archaeologist is generally affiliated with artifacts,
or the things which human left behind, whereas, an antiquarian is concerned with his own private
collection and study of history.
Archaeology - ANSWER✔️✔️-the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation
of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
Archaeozoologist - ANSWER✔️✔️-study of animal remains
artifact - ANSWER✔️✔️-an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or
historical interest.
Assemblage - ANSWER✔️✔️-a group of different artifacts found in association with one another
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