Exam 5: Conducting Fieldwork

Postholes, auger probes, and trenches are ________.

Aerial photography and spaceborne lasers are used for ________.

A sampling approach in which sample units are chosen randomly is called a ________.

What are the ethical issues involved with excavating a Native American site?

In archaeological terms, what does the Latin phrase "in situ" mean?

Common tools used for excavation include all of the following except for what?

The overall director of an archaeological project is called the ________.

The process of conserving material, preparing it for storage, and then storing it is called ________.

A Global Positioning System alone can only do which of the following?

A tell is ________.

The first step in fieldwork is usually ________.

What are specialists who examine human skeletal remains called?

Which of the following is not an instrument for finding things underground?

The Paleolithic cave art discovered in this location became so popular, that a complete replica was created to avoid tourist damage to the actual site.

Archaeologists search ethnographic data and historical records as part of their ________.

The fixed point for mapping a grid of an archaeological site is called a ________.

What do archaeologists use to set out the research questions, identify the kinds of data needed to address those questions, and select the appropriate field methods?

A total station is ________ used to map the location of each artifact.

Surface collections and test-level excavations ________.

Places to dig for archaeological artifacts are found in different ways but not ________.