Exam 1: The History of Archaeology

Like anthropologist Julian Steward,British archaeologist Grahame Clark broke away from the dependence on artifacts and argued for an ecological approach to how human populations adapted to their environments.

The Rosetta Stone was found to be the key to

______________ trained under Mortimer Wheeler,adopted his excavation method,and is best known for excavations at Jericho and Jerusalem

A late 19^th-century pioneer in organized,precise excavation and total recording methods was

Influenced by Darwin's ideas about evolution,Edward Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan argued that human societies evolved through stages,from

The site of Çatalhöyük,an early farming site made famous by archaeologist Ian Hodders's use of interpretive archaeology approaches,is located in

After 14 years of work,this scholar was able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822

The fundamental complaint among proponents of the New Archaeology in the 1960s was that traditional archaeological methods

Darwin's work on evolution,in particular the mechanism of "natural selection," served as an important catalyst to the concept

A key breakthrough in the use of scientific methods to date archaeological remains was Willard Libby's 1949 invention of

The central concern of the "classificatory-historical period" of archaeological thought,which lasted until 1960,was

One of the weaknesses of the interpretive approach to archaeology is that the actions and thoughts of individuals in the past are not brought into central focus.

The travel writing of American lawyer and diplomat John Lloyd Stephens,published in the 1840s,revealed the ruined cities of what civilization for the first time

During the 18th century,__________ was one of the first archaeological sites to be excavated

The New Archaeology is sometimes referred to as processual archaeology.

Who formed the first cabinets of curiosities?

Ian Hodder and his students were some of the first to advance influential arguments for the school of archaeological thought called

The widespread acceptance in the later 20th century that the material remains of the past should be protected and conserved has inspired the development of

Only just a century and a half ago,before the development of modern archaeology,most well-read people in the Western world thought the world had been created

Although it was less applicable in places where bronze or iron were not used,the Three Age System was conceptually significant to the study of the prehistory of