Question 1

French zoologist Herni Mouhot wrote the first vivid account of what spectacular Southeast Asian city site?

Accepted Answer

A)   Angkor Wat
B)   Mekong
C)   Khmer Palace
D)   Cambodian Gardens A

Question 2

Who proclaimed that Africa was the cradle of humanity?

Accepted Answer

A)   Austen Layard
B)   Louis Leakey
C)   Charles Darwin
D)   Tim White C

Question 3

French scientist Georges Cuvier believed that the fossils he pieced together demonstrated

Accepted Answer

A)   uniformitarianism.
B)   stratigraphic succession.
C)   several creations of life by God.
D)   the earth's ancient age. C

Question 4

Describe and then compare the idea of "from them to us" as it was seen during the 1800s and as it is viewed in archaeological theory today.

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Question 5

Discuss how General Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers' attitude about artifacts translates into excavation techniques.

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Question 6

Who made the first stratigraphic excavation in America?

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A)   John Quincy Adams
B)   Patrick Henry
C)   John Foster Dulles
D)   Thomas Jefferson

Question 7

English Austen Henry Layard is well known for his discovery of

Accepted Answer

A)   King Tut's tomb.
B)   Assyria.
C)   the Hittite culture.
D)   Nineveh.

Question 8

Compare and contrast ecological/evolutionary approaches in archaeology to "Historical Materialist" approaches.

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Question 9

Discuss the intellectual problems with the diffusionist ideas of Elliot Grafton Smith.

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Question 10

Which individual of the Bureau of American Ethnology proved beyond a doubt that the "Moundbuilder" mounds were in fact of Native American manufacture?

Accepted Answer

A)   Cyrus Thomas
B)   Thomas Jefferson
C)   Heinrich Schliemann
D)   Austen Layard

Question 11

That a severe drought may have induced hunter-gatherers in the Euphrates Valley to switch to agriculture is an example of what kind of archaeology?

Accepted Answer

A)   uniformitarian
B)   ecological/evolutionary
C)   palynology
D)   historical materialist

Question 12

Who introduced scientific excavation methods to the Nile in the late nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   Jean Champollion
B)   John Wilkinson
C)   Giovanni Belzoni
D)   Flinders Petrie

Question 13

Shoulder blades and tortoise shells were used by the Shang civilization for what kind of purposes?

Accepted Answer

A)   pharmaceutical
B)   philosophical
C)   political
D)   oracle and divination

Question 14

The scientific methods used in archeology have changed over the centuries. Of the methods mentioned in the text, which of the following is the most recent?

Accepted Answer

A)   stratigraphic excavation
B)   photography
C)   radiocarbon dating
D)   investigating multiple sites within a region

Question 15

Stephens and Catherwood recorded details of several ancient city sites in which culture?

Accepted Answer

A)   Egyptian
B)   Khmer
C)   Mayan
D)   Aztec

Question 16

As the scientific study of the human past, most archaeology is part of another, wider discipline called

Accepted Answer

A)   ethnology.
B)   cultural ecology.
C)   anthropology.
D)   Egyptology.

Question 17

Explain in detail the three-age system developed by Christian Jurgensen Thomsen.

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Question 18

Who discovered and excavated the site of Homeric Troy?

Accepted Answer

A)   Jean Champollion
B)   Giovanni Belzoni
C)   Heinrich Schliemann
D)   Howard Carter

Question 19

Alfred Kidder of Harvard University excavated the intricate strata of Pecos using a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)   backhoe.
B)   direct historical approach.
C)   ethnographical analysis.
D)   painstaking horizontal approach.

Question 20

Archaeology is the _____________ study of the past.

Accepted Answer

A)   exclusive
B)   humanistic
C)   scientific
D)   romantic

Exam 1: Fossils, Cities, and Civilizations: the Birth of a Science