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The Iceman find is important because |
| | A) | his remains tell us about life in the Bronze Age |
| | B) | he was discovered with written records |
| | C) | his remains can tell us about life in the Copper Age |
| | D) | the Iceman was discovered without tools |
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Archaeology is |
| | A) | the study of material remains created by past human beings |
| | B) | the sum of all human activities before the advent of written records |
| | C) | the study of artifacts |
| | D) | the study of material remains from historic sites |
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Kennewick Man is |
| | A) | another name for the Iceman |
| | B) | clearly related to European colonists in North America |
| | C) | has been claimed as an ancestor by several Native American tribes |
| | D) | one of the first archaeological discoveries in North America |
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Which of the following is not true of early antiquaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
| | A) | Antiquaries thought that Stonehenge had been built by Romans or ancient Britons. |
| | B) | Many antiquaries thought that the world was only about 6000 years old |
| | C) | Early antiquaries were interested in the standing stones and earthen monuments that were spread across the European countryside |
| | D) | Antiquarian ideas were based on the uniformitarian theory of geology |
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Which of the following statements is true of uniformitarianism? |
| | A) | Uniformitarianism suggests that the earth's history is the result of a series of catastrophies, including the Biblical flood |
| | B) | Uniformitarianism indicates that humans lived at the same time as extinct animals |
| | C) | Charles Darwin developed the theory of uniformitarianism |
| | D) | The theory of unifromitarianism suggests that the earth is much more than 6000 years old |
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Which of the following archaeologists did not discover stone tools associated with the bones of ancient animals? |
| | A) | John Frere |
| | B) | Christian Thomsen |
| | C) | Jacques Bouches de Perthes |
| | D) | William Pengelly |
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The Three Age System |
| | A) | provided a basic chronology for European prehistory |
| | B) | was designed to date coins |
| | C) | includes the Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the Industrial Age |
| | D) | is an early method of excavation |
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Thomas Jefferson |
| | A) | showed that Native Americans have lived in Virginia for more than 10,000 years |
| | B) | thought that the ancient North American burial mounds were built by the Lost Tribes of Israel |
| | C) | excavated Virginia burial mounds to learn about the Native American past |
| | D) | formed the Bureau of American Ethnology |
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Which of the following is not a branch of modern American anthropology: |
| | A) | anthropological linguistics |
| | B) | archaeology |
| | C) | physical anthropology |
| | D) | Egyptology |
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Which of the following sites is a nineteenth-century immigrant neighborhood in New York City? |
| | A) | Five Points |
| | B) | West Stow |
| | C) | Lothal |
| | D) | Star Carr |
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Which of the following is a goal of modern archaeological research? |
| | A) | understanding the nature of the archaeological record |
| | B) | reconstructing culture history |
| | C) | studying prehistoric lifeways |
| | D) | All of the above |
| | E) | None of the above |
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Direct historic analogies |
| | A) | have been used to study the Iceman |
| | B) | have been used to study Star Carr |
| | C) | have been used to study the prehistoric pueblo dwellers of the American Southwest |
| | D) | have been used to study Lothal |
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Migration is |
| | A) | the spread of a technological innovation into a new region |
| | B) | the movement of people into a new region |
| | C) | unknown in the ancient world |
| | D) | the only known cause of cultural changes |
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The New Archaeology |
| | A) | was based on the idea that archaeology is an art, not a science |
| | B) | was first developed in the late nineteenth century |
| | C) | was based on the idea that archaeology should have a theoretical structure similar to the life sciences |
| | D) | was based on the idea that archaeologists should apply scientific methods to the study of cultural change |
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Which of the following is not an integral part of the New Archaeology? |
| | A) | a processual approach to the study of cultural change |
| | B) | the study of migration |
| | C) | the idea that archaeology, as a part of anthropology, should be a science |
| | D) | the development of a series of covering laws, similar to the laws of physics |
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Postprocessual archaeologists |
| | A) | have used a range of theoretical perspectives to examine social, political, and economic diversity in ancient societies |
| | B) | are not interested in the actions of individuals |
| | C) | interpret cultural change using ecological models |
| | D) | are not interested in ideology and religion |
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Which of the following are ecofacts? |
| | A) | pottery and seeds |
| | B) | stone tools and animal bones |
| | C) | seeds and animal bones |
| | D) | pottery and stone tools |
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Artifacts are |
| | A) | Remains from the natural environment that can provide information about past environments |
| | B) | only preserved in deserts or waterlogged environments |
| | C) | items that are made, modified, or used by humans |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Which of the following is not a feature? |
| | A) | a building foundation |
| | B) | a human burial |
| | C) | a pit |
| | D) | a complete pottery bowl |
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Stratigraphic analysis is used to |
| | A) | study the material remains of the behavior of modern people |
| | B) | work of the sequence of events that created an archaeological site |
| | C) | date sites |
| | D) | identify sites |
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Test trenches are used |
| | A) | to test the potential of an archaeological site |
| | B) | to discover sites |
| | C) | to reveal spatial relationships between artifacts, ecofacts, and features |
| | D) | to save money |
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