Exam 3: The Development of Contemporary Archaeology

The controled replication of artifacts to help understand how they came to be made is called ________.

The application of logic, analogy, and theory in archaeology is called ________.

Collaborative efforts between archaeologists and contemporary peoples is part of ________.

Can there ever be only one approach to archaeology? Why or why not?

The New Archaeology movement is also called ________.

Archaeologists who live among a group of contemporary people to compare their societies with those of the past are engaged in ________.

Briefly describe some of the new areas of focus in postprocessual archaeology.

GIS programs allow archaeologists to ________.

A theoretical framework based on the idea that "human social life is a response to the practical problems" of existence is called ________.

Describe the major components of research design in scientific archaeology.

Postprocessualism expanded archaeology to include examinations of all of the following except for ________.

How has the development of modern technologies changed the practice of archaeology since World War II?

After World War II, archaeologists began asking what type of questions for the first time?

Archaeologist Lewis Binford in the 1960s argued that archaeology should be more ________.

What theory makes use of ethnographic analogy, experimental archaeology, and ethnoarchaeology?

Evolutionary archaeology is focused on ________.

Cultural materialism ________.

Of the following modern archaeological techniques, which is the oldest?

Criticisms of processual archaeology by postprocessualists include all of the following except for this belief.

Which of the following is not a major branch of postprocessual archaeology?