Exam 2: Probing the Past

Archaeology is a science. How is the archaeological study of the human past scientific?

A dominant scientific perspective or intellectual framework is called a:

How do archaeologists analyze food remains? What insights do these remains provide us about the lives of past people?

Archaeologists can distinguish the bones of male and female human beings because our species exhibits:

What kind of information can archaeologists and paleoanthropologists derive from human and pre-human skeletal remains?

Archaeologists have rejected claims that human antiquity can be best explained as the result of intervention by technologically precocious Altanteans or ancient extraterrestrial aliens because scientists:

The following would be considered an archaeological cache:

How are archaeological sites preserved? How do they survive for thousands or even millions of years?

Which of the following materials can be dated with radiocarbon dating:

C3 plants, notably trees, tend to have:

How are archaeological sites formed? In other words, how do they come into existence?

Pedestrian survey, remote sensing, and subsurface sampling all contribute to the process by which archaeologists:

The half-life of radiocarbon restricts the use of this dating technique to:

Neutron activation analysis is one technique used in:

Lidar is a technology useful in:

Buried archaeological sites are exposed by:

In approaching the past through "a convergence of evidence," we are confident in our conclusions because:

Stone chopping tools, arrowheads, bits of pottery, and bronze daggers are all examples of:

The term osteology refers to the study of:

Why is spatial context so important to the archaeologist? Briefly describe three different spatial contexts and associations for the same artifact, showing how different contexts reveal different behaviors.