This page is meant to keep you up to date on the latest course announcements and news of recent news reports of archaeological significance. While any announcements and changes to this page will be made in class, realize that with this class newsletter, you will have NO EXCUSE not to be aware of any changes or class assignments.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS MENTIONED ON THIS PAGE ! ! !
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Here are seven questions from past semsters' first exams. These are representative of the types of questions that will appear on your first exam.
Which individual clearly demonstrated that the Native Americans were the makers of great mounds of North America (and the artifacts within them)?
- a) Fox Pitt-Rivers
- b) A.L. Kroeber
- c) Thomas Jefferson
- d) Cyrus Thomas
- e) Jose de Costa
During the early part of the Culture History Period, which of the following methods permitted the construction of relative chronologies?
- a) seriation and cross-dating
- b) dendochronology and cross-dating
- c) dendochronology and radiocarbon dating
- d) stratigraphic excavations and seriation
- e) stratigraphic excavations and dendochronology
A feature is
- a) what you go see at the movies.
- b) a natural object that owes some of its attributes or deposition to human activity.
- c) an artifact that is modified by ecological transformation processes.
- d) an object that prehistoric people recycled so as not to contaminate their environment.
- e) a non-portable artifact.
Which individual proposed the "Three Age System"?
- a) Erich von Daniken
- b) Georges Cuvier
- c) William Rathje
- d) Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
- e) Bishop James Ussher
The work of an ethnographer may be described as
- a) the study of human and primate biological evolution.
- b) the description of the culture, technology, and economic life of different cultures.
- c) the scientific study of humanity in its broadest sense.
- d) the analysis of human verbal communication, its use, and its evolution.
- e) the scientific study and comparison of multiple human cultures.
Jose de Acosta is credited with being
- a) the individual who clearly demonstrated that the Native Americans were the makers of great mounds of North America.
- b) the first American to use stratigraphy during his excavations.
- c) the first individual to suggest that the Native Americans came to the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge.
- d) the first professional American Archaeologist.
- e) the founder of modern stratigraphic excavation techniques.
Archaeology is best defined as
- a) the excavation of all ancient things, such as dinosaurs, fossils, and artifacts.
- b) the collection of ancient objects.
- c) the study of human behavior through material culture.
- d) a discipline that has its origins in the excavation of great sites.
- e) the curation and preservation of artifacts with little concern for their context.
Answers to questions:
d, d, e, d, b, c, c
This page was created by Richard Sutter.
Last updated 08 January, 2007.