Exam 8: Taphonomy Experimental Archaeology And Ethnoarchaeology

Trying to move stones weighing several tons using only the tools and materials that the ancient Egyptians had available to them, with the goal of determining whether or not Egyptian technology was sufficiently sophisticated to produce monuments like the pyramids, is an example of:

In archaeology, plant remains from archaeological sites are known as faunal remains.

Ethnoarchaeological research among the Mikea suggests that the more permanent a settlement is the:

The purpose of heat-treating stone tool raw material was to:

Unlike detectives, archaeologists

Analogies justified on the basis of close cultural continuity between the archaeological and ethnographic cases or similarity in general cultural form are known as

Binford's ethnoarchaeological work with the Nunamiut Eskimo of Alaska demonstrated:

Flutes, or wide, shallow, longitudinal grooves on each face of a point, are made by

A geologist observes glacial moraines and striations in an area that is today not glaciated. The geologist interprets those features as evidence of past glacial activity. He or she is utilizing:

The "schlep effect" caused Perkins and Daly to explain that throwing away the bones was why upper limb bones were not found at the Neolithic village, Suberde. R.E. Chaplin interpreted the shortage of upper limb bones on a late-ninth century Saxon farm as the result of butchering and dressing the carcasses for market. Upper limb bones missing at American Plains Indian sites were argued by T. White to have been pulverized and boiled to render the grease to make pemmican. These examples exemplify the following:

Experimental archaeology has been used to determine how stone tools were used in the past. This research has shown that:

The word taphonomy refers to

In geology, the principle of uniformitarianism asserts that:

Newcomer designed blind experiments to test the accuracy of Keeley's high-power microscopy method of identifying stone tool microwear. These experiments:

Experimental archaeology provides archaeologists with bridging arguments, ways to make inferences about past behavior from material remains. Which of the following is not an example of experimental archaeology?

Analogies must be used cautiously because there is no guarantee that the analogy will accurately describe the prehistoric culture.

If you are conducting archaeological excavation in an area where houses were made in a way similar to that inhabited by Madagascar's Mikea, and you find a house structure that has very consistent post diameters (as determined by the post holes left behind, now filled with decayed wood), what could you infer about the house based on ethnoarchaeological research?

The goal of taphonomic studies is to infer the function of prehistoric objects and features based on the similarity of those objects and features to those used by related cultures today.

Taphonomy is useful to archaeology because it:

Kelly conducted ethnoarchaeological research among the Mikea of Madagascar to answer which of the following questions?