ANTHROPOLOGY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Archaeogaming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The utilization and treatment of immaterial space to
study created culture, specifically through video games.
Archaeological Record - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅all material objects constructed by humans or near-
humans revealed by archaeology
Artifacts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅objects that have been deliberately and intelligently shaped by
humans or our hominin ancestors
Cultural Resource Management - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A branch of archaeology concerned with
survey and/or excavation of archaeological and historical remains that might be threatened by
construction or development; also involved with policy surrounding protection of cultural resources.
Digital Heritage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Digital information about the past available on the
Internet. It can include a range of materials from digitized documents and photographs to images of
artifacts to video and sound recordings.
Ecofacts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Biological remains that are likely associated with food
consumption or other human activities
Ethnoarchaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the study of the way present-day societies use artifacts
and structures and how these objects become part of the archaeological record
Excavation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the action of excavating something, especially an
archaeological site.
Features - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅non portable remnants from the past, such as house walls or
ditches
, Feminist Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a research approach that explores why women's
contributions have been systematically written out of the archaeological record and suggests new
approaches to the human past that include such contributions
Gender Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅archaeological research that draws on insights from
contemporary gender studies to investigate how people come to recognize themselves as different from
others, how people represent these differences, and how others react to such claims
Historical Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the study of archaeological sites associated with
written records, frequently the study of post-European contact sites in the world
Provenance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the three-dimensional position of an artifact within the matrix
of an archaeological site
Site - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a precise geographical location of the remains of past human activity
Subsistence Strategies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the ways that people in a particular society go
about meeting their basic material survival needs
Survey - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the physical examination of a geographical region in which
promising sites are most likely to be found
Affluence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the condition of having more than enough of whatever is
required to satisfy consumption needs
Capitalism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An economic system based on private ownership of capital
Commodities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅goods exchanged for cash
Commodity Exchanges - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅impersonal economic exchanges typical of the
capitalist market in which goods are exchanged for cash and exchange partners need have nothing
further to do with one another
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Archaeogaming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The utilization and treatment of immaterial space to
study created culture, specifically through video games.
Archaeological Record - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅all material objects constructed by humans or near-
humans revealed by archaeology
Artifacts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅objects that have been deliberately and intelligently shaped by
humans or our hominin ancestors
Cultural Resource Management - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A branch of archaeology concerned with
survey and/or excavation of archaeological and historical remains that might be threatened by
construction or development; also involved with policy surrounding protection of cultural resources.
Digital Heritage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Digital information about the past available on the
Internet. It can include a range of materials from digitized documents and photographs to images of
artifacts to video and sound recordings.
Ecofacts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Biological remains that are likely associated with food
consumption or other human activities
Ethnoarchaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the study of the way present-day societies use artifacts
and structures and how these objects become part of the archaeological record
Excavation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the action of excavating something, especially an
archaeological site.
Features - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅non portable remnants from the past, such as house walls or
ditches
, Feminist Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a research approach that explores why women's
contributions have been systematically written out of the archaeological record and suggests new
approaches to the human past that include such contributions
Gender Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅archaeological research that draws on insights from
contemporary gender studies to investigate how people come to recognize themselves as different from
others, how people represent these differences, and how others react to such claims
Historical Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the study of archaeological sites associated with
written records, frequently the study of post-European contact sites in the world
Provenance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the three-dimensional position of an artifact within the matrix
of an archaeological site
Site - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅a precise geographical location of the remains of past human activity
Subsistence Strategies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the ways that people in a particular society go
about meeting their basic material survival needs
Survey - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the physical examination of a geographical region in which
promising sites are most likely to be found
Affluence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the condition of having more than enough of whatever is
required to satisfy consumption needs
Capitalism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An economic system based on private ownership of capital
Commodities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅goods exchanged for cash
Commodity Exchanges - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅impersonal economic exchanges typical of the
capitalist market in which goods are exchanged for cash and exchange partners need have nothing
further to do with one another
