Exam 5: Geoarchaeology and Site Formation Processes

Formation processes only occur in the archaeological context, not in the systemic context.

Reverse stratigraphy would result from which of the following situations?

The upper part of a soil where active organic and mechanical decomposition of geological and organic material occurs is the:

An example of a formation process in the archaeological context is:

Which of the following formation processes could result in reverse stratigraphy?

The law of superposition gives us the information that the "story" of the past

An archaeological context differs from a systemic context in that:

The example of pithouse construction

Natural disturbance processes are the only processes that affect the formation of archaeological sites.

How could an archaeologist tell if flowing water rather than human behavior was responsible for the deposition of artifacts at an archaeological site?

Mary and Louis Leaky were famous historic archaeologists who worked in East Africa.

By the time an artifact reaches an archaeologist's hand, it has usually long since ceased to participate in the systemic context.

Which of the following is an example of a systemic context?

Eolian sediments refer to materials transported

Most of the strata in Gatecliff rockshelter consist of:

What information do ice cores taken from several places in the world indicate?

An example of a formation process is:

A B horizon is:

A marker bed is:

In most sites, stratigraphy results from a complex interplay between