Question 1

Materials such as bone, leather, skin, textiles, and wood depend greatly on their physical environment for preservation because they are

Accepted Answer

A)  living. 
B)  organic. 
C)  synthetic. 
D)  pliant. 
A)  living. 
B)  organic. 
C)  synthetic. 
D)  pliant.

Question 2

What value do the discards of the past-food remains, structures, and artifacts-have as a means of studying ancient human behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)  They are priceless. 
B)  They are valueless. 
C)  They have good value. 
D)  They have poor value. 
A)  They are priceless. 
B)  They are valueless. 
C)  They have good value. 
D)  They have poor value.

Question 3

Focusing on specific artifact patternings and on studies of hunter-gatherer encampments that might provide ways of interpreting the very earliest human sites at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere is an application of

Accepted Answer

A)  ethnoarchaeology. 
B)  experimental archaeology. 
C)  ethnographic analogy. 
D)  creative analogy. 
A)  ethnoarchaeology. 
B)  experimental archaeology. 
C)  ethnographic analogy. 
D)  creative analogy.

Question 4

The fact that archaeologists are able to distinguish between wear polishes associated with different materials, including wood, bone, and hide, indicates the power of

Accepted Answer

A)  ethnographic analogy. 
B)  creative analogy. 
C)  experimental archaeology. 
D)  ethnoarchaeology. 
A)  ethnographic analogy. 
B)  creative analogy. 
C)  experimental archaeology. 
D)  ethnoarchaeology.

Question 5

If photographs taken in 1890 were compared with excavated home foundations from earlier, but still relatively recent, historic times and the features of both were the same, then archaeologists might use this model to interpret the design of prehistoric houses. A house could then be traced backward into prehistoric times in sites many centuries earlier than the historic settlements. This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  ethnographic analogy. 
B)  living archaeology. 
C)  site formation processes. 
D)  cultural processes. 
A)  ethnographic analogy. 
B)  living archaeology. 
C)  site formation processes. 
D)  cultural processes.

Materials such as bone, leather, skin, textiles, and wood depend greatly on their physical environment for preservation because they are

What value do the discards of the past-food remains, structures, and artifacts-have as a means of studying ancient human behavior?

Focusing on specific artifact patternings and on studies of hunter-gatherer encampments that might provide ways of interpreting the very earliest human sites at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere is an application of

The fact that archaeologists are able to distinguish between wear polishes associated with different materials, including wood, bone, and hide, indicates the power of

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Explaining the Past

Space and Time

They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: the Process of Research and Finding Archaeological Sites

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Exam 9: The Present and the Past

Materials such as bone, leather, skin, textiles, and wood depend greatly on their physical environment for preservation because they are

What value do the discards of the past-food remains, structures, and artifacts-have as a means of studying ancient human behavior?

Focusing on specific artifact patternings and on studies of hunter-gatherer encampments that might provide ways of interpreting the very earliest human sites at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere is an application of

The fact that archaeologists are able to distinguish between wear polishes associated with different materials, including wood, bone, and hide, indicates the power of

Fossils, Cities, and Civilizations: the Birth of a Science

Introducing Archaeology and Prehistory

Culture and Context

Explaining the Past

Space and Time

They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: the Process of Research and Finding Archaeological Sites

Excavation

Archaeological Classification and Ancient Technologies

Ancient Climate and Environment

Come Tell Me How You Lived

Settlement and Landscape

The Archaeology of People

Managing the Past

So You Want to Become an Archaeologist

Filters