Archaeology Essentials Theories Methods
and Practice 3rd Edition by Colin Renfrew-
Test bank Chapter (1 to 12)
,Content: _
Chapter 1 Questions
Chapter 2 Questions
Chapter 3 Questions
Chapter 4 Questions
Chapter 5 Questions
Chapter 6 Questions
Chapter 7 Questions
Chapter 8 Questions
Chapter 9 Questions
Chapter 10 Questions
Chapter 11 Questions
Chapter 12 Questions
,Chapter 1 Questions
1. Who is considered to be the first person to have conducted a scientific excavation of an
ancient site?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) General Pitt-Rivers
c) Sir William Flinders Petrie
d) Willard Libby
e) Charles Darwin
2. Only just a century and a half ago, before the development of modern archaeology, most
well-read people in the Western world thought the world had been created a) in the year 1
AD
b) in the year 1000 AD
c) 4.54 billion years ago
d) 2 million years ago
e) in 4004 BC
3. The ecological approach to archaeology developed by Grahame Clark and his
contemporaries could not only build up a picture of what prehistoric environments were
like, but could also provide information about human activities such as a) what
language people spoke in the past
b) why people believed in certain gods
c) what style of clothing people wore
d) what people ate in the past
e) all of the above
4. Many 19th century scholars were obsessed with the Moundbuilders, a mythical
civilization that supposedly built the mounds and earthworks located in what is now a) the
United States
b) Greece
c) Eastern Europe
d) China
e) South Africa
5. Who formed the first cabinets of curiosities?
a) Sigmund Freud
b) Renaissance princes
c) Sir John Soane
, d) the Aztecs
e) none of the above
6. After 14 years of work, this scholar was able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in
1822
a) Ephraim Squier
b) Gordon Childe
c) Jean-François Champollion
d) General Pitt-Rivers
e) C.J. Thomsen
7. “Survival of the fittest”, a key mechanism in Darwin’s theory of evolution, is also known
as
a) natural selection
b) uniformitarianism
c) stratification
d) classification
e) ethnology
8. A late 19th-century pioneer in organized, precise excavation and total recording methods
was
a) Mortimer Wheeler
b) Charles Darwin
c) Gordon Childe
d) General Pitt-Rivers
e) Alfred Kidder
9. The Rosetta Stone was found to be the key to
a) deciphering Aramaic
b) deciphering ancient Hebrew
c) deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
d) deciphering Linear A
e) deciphering ancient Greek
10. The study of the arrangement of superimposed layers of rocks or soil is called
a) processualism
b) the Three Age system
c) cultural ecology
d) stratigraphy
and Practice 3rd Edition by Colin Renfrew-
Test bank Chapter (1 to 12)
,Content: _
Chapter 1 Questions
Chapter 2 Questions
Chapter 3 Questions
Chapter 4 Questions
Chapter 5 Questions
Chapter 6 Questions
Chapter 7 Questions
Chapter 8 Questions
Chapter 9 Questions
Chapter 10 Questions
Chapter 11 Questions
Chapter 12 Questions
,Chapter 1 Questions
1. Who is considered to be the first person to have conducted a scientific excavation of an
ancient site?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) General Pitt-Rivers
c) Sir William Flinders Petrie
d) Willard Libby
e) Charles Darwin
2. Only just a century and a half ago, before the development of modern archaeology, most
well-read people in the Western world thought the world had been created a) in the year 1
AD
b) in the year 1000 AD
c) 4.54 billion years ago
d) 2 million years ago
e) in 4004 BC
3. The ecological approach to archaeology developed by Grahame Clark and his
contemporaries could not only build up a picture of what prehistoric environments were
like, but could also provide information about human activities such as a) what
language people spoke in the past
b) why people believed in certain gods
c) what style of clothing people wore
d) what people ate in the past
e) all of the above
4. Many 19th century scholars were obsessed with the Moundbuilders, a mythical
civilization that supposedly built the mounds and earthworks located in what is now a) the
United States
b) Greece
c) Eastern Europe
d) China
e) South Africa
5. Who formed the first cabinets of curiosities?
a) Sigmund Freud
b) Renaissance princes
c) Sir John Soane
, d) the Aztecs
e) none of the above
6. After 14 years of work, this scholar was able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in
1822
a) Ephraim Squier
b) Gordon Childe
c) Jean-François Champollion
d) General Pitt-Rivers
e) C.J. Thomsen
7. “Survival of the fittest”, a key mechanism in Darwin’s theory of evolution, is also known
as
a) natural selection
b) uniformitarianism
c) stratification
d) classification
e) ethnology
8. A late 19th-century pioneer in organized, precise excavation and total recording methods
was
a) Mortimer Wheeler
b) Charles Darwin
c) Gordon Childe
d) General Pitt-Rivers
e) Alfred Kidder
9. The Rosetta Stone was found to be the key to
a) deciphering Aramaic
b) deciphering ancient Hebrew
c) deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
d) deciphering Linear A
e) deciphering ancient Greek
10. The study of the arrangement of superimposed layers of rocks or soil is called
a) processualism
b) the Three Age system
c) cultural ecology
d) stratigraphy
