Table Of ContentANP264
MIDTERM EXAM
February 26, 2015
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1. In Europe, Asia, and Africa, archaeology is often a separate university department — not
connected with sociocultural anthropology or biological anthropology
A) True
B) False
2. Material culture is defined as the physical manifestation of human cultural activity
A) True
B) False
3. Which of the following is a goal of archaeology?
A) Develop Chronologies
B) Reconstruct past lifeways
C) Examine cultural process
D) All of the above
4. Archaeologists are more interested in artifacts than context
A) True
B) False
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5. Ethnoarchaeology is the study of the living peoples from an archaeological perspective
A) True
B) False
6. Anthropology includes which of the following subfields?
A) Socio-cultural Anthropology
B) Linguistic Anthropology
C) Biological Anthropology
D) All of the above
7.______________ is the position of an archaeological find in time and space.
A) Culture History
B) Context
C) Strata
D) Association
8. Floral analysis focus on what type of material?
A) Stone tools
B) Animal bones
C) Human skeletal material
D) Plant remains
9. Charred (carbonized) plant and seed remains can be recovered from sediment using a
process called ___________________.
A) Ethnographic analogy
B) Geoarchaeology
C) Floatation
D) Troweling
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10.Linguistic Anthropology is the study of how language influences social life
A) True
B) False
11. The spread of ideas over short and long distances is called?
A) Twitter
B) Diffusion
C) Gossip
D) Migration
12.Radiocarbon dating is based on the decay of Carbon 14 found in?
A) Charcoal
B) Bone
C) Wood
D) All of the above
13.Biological Anthropology studies the physical and biological development of the human
species
A) True
B) False
14.Geoarchaeology involves the combination of analytical techniques from what two
sciences?
A) Archaeology and Remote Sensing
B) Archaeology and Geology
C) Archaeology and Chemistry
D) Archaeology and Geography
15.The term functional type refers to grouping similar artifacts based on how an archaeologist
believes they were used.
A) True
B) False
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16.Potassium Argon dating is a dating method that
A) Is used for recent materials, in the last 200 years.
B) Is used to date materials many millions of years old
C) Uses volcanic ash and rock to date archaeological sites
D) Both B and C
17.Which of the following are considered archaeological sites?
A) Remains of architecture
B) Stone monuments
C) Geoglyphs
D) All of the above
18.Relative dating techniques give archaeologists an age expressed in years
A) True
B) False
19.Which of the following is a comprehensive study of an area for archaeological remains?
A) Shovel test
B) Survey
C) Remote inspection
D) None of the above
20.Which of the following was an intellectual movement that related superficial phenomena
such as language, myths, works of art and social institutions to the underlying structure of
language
A) Nationalism
B) Modernism
C) Structuralism
D) Postmodernism
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21.Which of the following was a Medieval idea that placed all life in a hierarchy from God
down to the simplest creatures?
A) Great Chain of Being
B) Nature’s Ladder
C) The Stairway of Heaven
D) None of the above
22.An archaeological site is a place where past human activity is preserved
A) True
B) False
23.The earliest format in which the ancient Egyptian king’s name appeared is the cartouche
A) True
B) False
24.Piece plotting involves using a shovel to determine whether there are any archaeological
remains below the surface
A) True
B) False
25. The law of superposition states that:
A) Primitive looking artifacts come before advanced ones
B) Sedimentary layers are deposited in a time sequence, with the oldest on the bottom
and the youngest on the top
C) Cultures in the past were more primitive than today
D) Black cats are bad luck
26.What was the capital of ancient Egypt during the Old Kingdom?
A) Hierakonpolis
B) Buto
C) Thebes
D) Memphis
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27.Which of the following is among the 7 cultural characteristics most commonly used to
define the Mississippians?
A) Shell Tempered Pottery
B) Settlement Hierarchy
C) Maize Agriculture
D) All of the Above
28.A total station is a survey instrument which only provides both elevation information
A) True
B) False
29.The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex is a belief system shared by Mississippian peoples.
A) True.
B) False
30.During the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt, workers were not slaves. Instead, they were
conscripted for state projects as one kind of payment of taxes to the state.
A) True
B) False
31.Which of the following remote sensing techniques detects changes in magnetic fields?
A) Electrical resistivity
B) LiDAR
C) Ground Penetrating Radar
D) None of the above
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32.Which of the following was a high stakes game (associated with gambling) played during
the Mississippian period?
A) Pasuckuakohowog
B) Slahal
C) Snow snake
D) None of the Above
33.Chronological (or “historical”) types are artifacts whose combination of attributes is known
to be limited to particular time periods.
A) True
B) False
34.Which of the following refers to horizontal layers of human activity built up over a period
of time?
A) Stratigraphy
B) Site
C) Antikathera
D) Locus
35.Who developed the Law of Superposition?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Flinders Petrie
C) Nicolas Steno
D) Samuel Darjes
36.What are faunal artifacts?
A) Animal remains
B) Plant remains
C) Stone tools
D) None of the above
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37.Which of the following is the process of producing stone tools by through lithic reduction
A) Flintknapping
B) Geo-rectifying
C) Lithic casting
D) Debitage
38.Stone tools help us understand which of the following:
A) Subsistence strategies
B) Resource and Land Use
C) Development and Change of Technology
D) All of the above
39.Anthropological archaeologists consider their discipline a social science, whereas language
scholars such as Egyptologists often view their studies as part of the humanities.
A) True
B) False
40.Absolute dating is the process of determining a sequence or order of events or objects
relative to one another
A) True
B) False
41.Which of the following is a relative dating technique in which assemblages from multiple
sites (in the same culture) are ordered chronologically based on specific traits?
A) Dendrochronology
B) Seriation
C) Cultural Stratigraphy
D) Lateral Continuity
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42.Which of the following was the largest and most influential Mississippian center?
A) Moundville
B) Angel Mounds
C) Spiro Mounds
D) Cahokia
43.In the Mississippian belief system, the various levels of the cosmos were bound together by
what?
A) The Great Serpant
B) Axis Mundi
C) The Great Chain of Being
D) The Knotted Path
44.Paleomagnetic dating is based on the fact that the north and south pole have “reversed”
their magnetism many times.
A) True
B) False
45.The major environmental stress cited for the collapse of the Old Kingdom and the
beginning of the First Intermediate Period is what?
A) Lower Nile floods
B) Sandstorms
C) Invasive species
D) Drop in average annual temperatures in the Eastern Sahara
46.Which of the following scholars wrote The Histories?
A) Plato
B) Archimedes
C) Herodotus
D) Nabonidus
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47.Giovanni Belzoni was the first European to gain entrance into the Pyramid of Khufu
A) True
B) False
48.Bishop Charles Henry Watson asserted that the world was created in 4004 BC
A) True
B) False
49.Who was the scholar who developed the Three Age System?
A) V. Gordon Childe
B) Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
C) Giovani Belzoni
D) Flinders Petrie
50.The New Archaeology is also referred to as
A) Post Processual Archaeology
B) Processual Archaeology
C) Cultural Materialism
D) Behavioral Archaeology
51.The Temple of Karnak is on the west bank of the Nile
A) True
B) False
52.The Theban Triad includes which of the following gods?
A) Mut
B) Khonsu
C) Amun
D) All of the above
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