Archaeology correct answers multi discipline approach
study of artifacts, focus on context.
Classical Archaeology correct answers history and fine arts focus on Greeks and Romans
Anthropological Archaeology correct answers Focus on local origins and prehistoric non-western
societies.
Four field approach of Anthropological Archaeology correct answers Ethnography
Ethnolinguistics
Biological Anthropology
Archaeology
Anthropological Archaeology 3 main goals correct answers Describe past lifeways
Establish chronology of cultural patterns
Explain how and why culture changed over time
Change may occur: correct answers Through time and through space
Equifinality correct answers two distinct phenomenon which result in the same thing. Ex: deer
found in lake
Archaeological sites correct answers any location where there is physical evidence of past human
activity. Some are still present, some are preserved in oral history or written tradition.
Material Evidence correct answers Artifacts,
structures
,Ecofacts
Human Remains
palimpsest correct answers noun: something that has been changed numerous times but on which
traces of former iterations can still be seen
ex manuscript written over old writing.
Holocene correct answers The current epoch, extending from 10,000 years ago to the present on
the geologic time scale.
Emergence of agriculture
Pleistocene correct answers 2.6 million years ago to 10,000 years ago
The Last Ice Age.
Associated with the radiation of the Genus homo
Divided into three:
Early Pleistocene: 2.6 MYA to 780 KYA
Middle Pleistocene: 780-130 KYA
Late or Upper Pleistocene: 130-10 KYA
Pliocene correct answers 5.3-2.6 mya
Emergence of Australopithecines
First tools appear at the end of this period
Miocene correct answers 23-5 mya
Emergence of Bipedalism
The Paleolithic 3 time periods correct answers Lower Paleolithic : 2.6 MYA to 300 KYA
Middle Paleolithic : 300-40 KYA
, Upper Paleolithic : 40-10 KYA
65 mya correct answers The first primates emerge
25 MYA correct answers The apes first appear
Humans shared an ancestor with chimpanzees when? correct answers 7-8 MYA
Humans shared an ancestor with Gorillas when? correct answers 10 MYA
Hominoids correct answers A term that refers to great apes, humans and the lesser apes
(monkeys)
Hominines correct answers humans and their closest ancestors. includes only bipeds
Hominids correct answers great apes and humans
Taung Baby correct answers first australopithecine fossil discovered in Africa
foramen magnum correct answers A large opening at the base of the skull through which the
brain connects to the spinal cord.
Can tell if something is bipedal
The Leakey family correct answers They are anthropologists that searched for early human
remains/fossils to learn about the people of the past. Names: Mary and Louis (both British).
Mary is also an archaeologist. She found "Lucy" with U.S. anthropologist, Donald Johanson, in a
site that is 1000 miles to the north in Ethiopia.