ASB 222 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts - answer
true
the goals of archaeology include - answer A. Discovering evidence of the human past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
C. Reconstructing past lives and societies
ALL OF THE ABOVE !!
Archaeology applies scientific methods and theories to the material remains of past
cultures to understand human behavior. - answer true
Which of the following places the four types of human societies in order from smallest in
size and least complex, to largest in size and most complex. - answer Bands, Tribes,
Chiefdoms, States
Radiocarbon dating can date things that lived up to 500,000 years ago - answer false
An objects provenience is its location in horizontal and vertical space - answer true
Excavation reveals - answer A. The three dimensional patterning of the site
B. The temporal and spatial relationship among artifacts in three dimensional space
A and B only
Archaeology is a historical science - answer true
Which of the following is NOT a goal of archaeology - answergot this wrong
NOT-RECONSTRUCTING HUMAN CULTURAL HISTORY
Archaeologists that live in other cultures to learn about how artifacts are made and used
are called - answerEthnoarchaeologists
You are an archaeologists excavating a site and you find an artifact of a type you've
never seen before. Which method would NOT help you figure out what the artifact was
used for in the past? - answerSurvey
The second human diaspora, when humans colonized much of the planet including
Australia, and the Americas occurred when? - answer10-50 kya
, The development of complex language helps separate modern humans from our earlier
ancestors - answerTrue
What tool tradition, featuring standardized bifaces, was produced by Homo erectus? -
answerAcheulean
Two major hypotheses explaining the origins of modern humans are - answerThe
multiregional model vs the out-of-Africa model
The hominis that exited Africa during the first out of Africa migrations were anatomically
modern humans - answerFalse
How did humans disrupt ecological balance through globalization? - answerA. Hunting
B. Competition
C. Fire
ANSWER D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
Human evolution is not a straight line but rather has many evolutionary dead ends and
branches - answerTrue
Of the following what were the two main challenges people had to overcome in
colonizing the Americas? - answerLiving in subarctic environments and traveling from
Alaska to the rest of the American continents
Biologically modern humans - answer200 kya??? -
Hopewell earthworks include - answerA. Geometric shapes
B. Causeways
C. Forts
ANSWER- D. ALL THE ABOVE
Agriculture has changed the environment by causing - answerA. Deforestation
B. Erosion
C. Loss of species diversity
ANSWER- D- ALL OF THE ABOVE
The beginning of the Neolithic coincides with the end of the Younger Dryas, which was
a short period of - answerCooling
Domestication and agriculture are two terms that refer to the same process but for
different types of organisms. Domestication refers only to fauna and agriculture only to
flora. - answerFalse
A palynologist would interpret a decrease in tree pollen and an increase in grass pollen
after the introduction of farming to an area as - answerevidence for deforestation
ANSWERS
Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts - answer
true
the goals of archaeology include - answer A. Discovering evidence of the human past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
C. Reconstructing past lives and societies
ALL OF THE ABOVE !!
Archaeology applies scientific methods and theories to the material remains of past
cultures to understand human behavior. - answer true
Which of the following places the four types of human societies in order from smallest in
size and least complex, to largest in size and most complex. - answer Bands, Tribes,
Chiefdoms, States
Radiocarbon dating can date things that lived up to 500,000 years ago - answer false
An objects provenience is its location in horizontal and vertical space - answer true
Excavation reveals - answer A. The three dimensional patterning of the site
B. The temporal and spatial relationship among artifacts in three dimensional space
A and B only
Archaeology is a historical science - answer true
Which of the following is NOT a goal of archaeology - answergot this wrong
NOT-RECONSTRUCTING HUMAN CULTURAL HISTORY
Archaeologists that live in other cultures to learn about how artifacts are made and used
are called - answerEthnoarchaeologists
You are an archaeologists excavating a site and you find an artifact of a type you've
never seen before. Which method would NOT help you figure out what the artifact was
used for in the past? - answerSurvey
The second human diaspora, when humans colonized much of the planet including
Australia, and the Americas occurred when? - answer10-50 kya
, The development of complex language helps separate modern humans from our earlier
ancestors - answerTrue
What tool tradition, featuring standardized bifaces, was produced by Homo erectus? -
answerAcheulean
Two major hypotheses explaining the origins of modern humans are - answerThe
multiregional model vs the out-of-Africa model
The hominis that exited Africa during the first out of Africa migrations were anatomically
modern humans - answerFalse
How did humans disrupt ecological balance through globalization? - answerA. Hunting
B. Competition
C. Fire
ANSWER D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
Human evolution is not a straight line but rather has many evolutionary dead ends and
branches - answerTrue
Of the following what were the two main challenges people had to overcome in
colonizing the Americas? - answerLiving in subarctic environments and traveling from
Alaska to the rest of the American continents
Biologically modern humans - answer200 kya??? -
Hopewell earthworks include - answerA. Geometric shapes
B. Causeways
C. Forts
ANSWER- D. ALL THE ABOVE
Agriculture has changed the environment by causing - answerA. Deforestation
B. Erosion
C. Loss of species diversity
ANSWER- D- ALL OF THE ABOVE
The beginning of the Neolithic coincides with the end of the Younger Dryas, which was
a short period of - answerCooling
Domestication and agriculture are two terms that refer to the same process but for
different types of organisms. Domestication refers only to fauna and agriculture only to
flora. - answerFalse
A palynologist would interpret a decrease in tree pollen and an increase in grass pollen
after the introduction of farming to an area as - answerevidence for deforestation
