Exam 1: The History of Archaeology

Contradicting the prevailing wisdom of the time,excavations led by ____________ at Great Zimbabwe (1929)confirmed that the site represented a major culture of African origin

C.J.Thomsen,a Danish scholar,was responsible for classifying artifact collections and,based on those classifications,he created a conceptual scheme known as

The Moundbuilders,long thought to be a "vanished race," were actually the ancestors of modern Native Americans.

Scholars began to study and collect the relics of Greece and Rome

What is androcentrism?

Reflecting many other aspects of modern life in the 1960s,the New Archaeology was more pessimistic than earlier,traditional approaches to archaeology.

The ecological approach to archaeology developed by Grahame Clark and his contemporaries could not only build up a picture of what prehistoric environments were like,but could also provide information about human activities such as

Proponents of the New Archaeology argued that archaeology should do which of the following?