Archaeology

6 years ago

In a kinship chart, which symbol does the textbook use to symbolize women?

In a kinship chart, which symbol does the textbook use to symbolize women?

a. a triangle
b. a square
c. a circle
d. a heart
e. an x

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6 years ago

In general, bilateral descent is associated with industrialized nations; patrilineal descent is ...

In general, bilateral descent is associated with industrialized nations; patrilineal descent is associated with a wide range of conditions such as hunting and gathering, agriculture, and pastoralism, as well as internal warfare; and matrilineal desce

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6 years ago

Matrilineal societies are extremely common, making up roughly 75 of the world's societies today; ...

Matrilineal societies are extremely common, making up roughly 75 of the world's societies today; archaeologists also believe they were very common in the past.

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6 years ago

Achieved status is inherited, but they can also be earned through individual effort. (True or false?)

Achieved status is inherited, but they can also be earned through individual effort.

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6 years ago

Archaeology recognizes the importance of a strong androcentric bias, especially since the 1970s. ...

Archaeology recognizes the importance of a strong androcentric bias, especially since the 1970s.

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6 years ago

The cargo system is part of the social organization found in many Central American communities in ...

The cargo system is part of the social organization found in many Central American communities in which a poor individual is named to carry out and bear the cost of important religious ceremonies throughout the year.

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6 years ago

Which of the following is not true of symbols and symbolic behavior?

Which of the following is not true of symbols and symbolic behavior?

a. The ability to use symbols lies at the heart of what it means to be human; uniquely human attributes, such as language, are made possible by the ability

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6 years ago

The difference between a symbol and a sign is

The difference between a symbol and a sign is

a. a symbol has connection to what it signifies, while a sign does not.
b. a sign has a connection to what it signifies, while a symbol does not.
c. symbol

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6 years ago

A society's mechanism for relating supernatural phenomena to the everyday world, and enlisting ...

A society's mechanism for relating supernatural phenomena to the everyday world, and enlisting supernatural powers to achieve or prevent transformations of state in humans and nature, is

a. religion.
b. ritual.

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6 years ago

How could Robert Hall's interpretations about the symbolic meanings of Hopewell effigy pipes be ...

How could Robert Hall's interpretations about the symbolic meanings of Hopewell effigy pipes be tested?

a. They could be tested directly simply by examining ethnographic data relating to the symbolic meaning of historic peace

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6 years ago

The earliest evidence of artistic expression appears only in the last_______ years, but does not ...

The earliest evidence of artistic expression appears only in the last_______ years, but does not become widespread until the last_______ years ago.

a. 40,000; 10,000
b. 100,000; 40,000
c. 200,000; 90,0

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6 years ago

The occurrence of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe is marked by the appearance of

The occurrence of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe is marked by the appearance of

a. a complex technology of stone, bone, and antler as well as art.
b. animal domestication.
c. agriculture.

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6 years ago

The Upper Paleolithic, the last major division of the Old World Paleolithic, dates to

The Upper Paleolithic, the last major division of the Old World Paleolithic, dates to

a. 10,000 BC to present.
b. 40,000-10,000 BC.
c. 90,000-10,000 BC.
d. what is unknown: the temporal di

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6 years ago

The paradigm that holds that human culture is the expression of unconscious modes of thought and ...

The paradigm that holds that human culture is the expression of unconscious modes of thought and reasoning, notably binary opposition, is

a. processualism.
b. postprocessualism.
c. structuralism.

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6 years ago

Leroi-Gourhan's interpretation that the symbols used in Upper Paleolithic cave art, including ...

Leroi-Gourhan's interpretation that the symbols used in Upper Paleolithic cave art, including abstract shapes and animal figures, were ultimately male and female symbols

a. was widely accepted by the archaeological community

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6 years ago

In Upper Paleolithic cave art, human characteristics are

In Upper Paleolithic cave art, human characteristics are

a. rarely represented, and when they are represented are poorly executed compared to the marvelously depicted animal figures.
b. frequently represented, an

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6 years ago

A culture's understanding of how the world works, how it originated and developed, how the various ...

A culture's understanding of how the world works, how it originated and developed, how the various parts fit together, what laws they obey and, especially, the place of humans in the natural and supernatural worlds is known as

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6 years ago

David Lewis-Williams argues that Upper Paleolithic cave art is evidence of shamanistic trances. ...

David Lewis-Williams argues that Upper Paleolithic cave art is evidence of shamanistic trances. Which of the following does he use as evidence for his interpretation?

a. According to cross-cultural psychological and neurologi

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6 years ago

Only a man can be a shaman; women are considered evil and therefore unable to communicate with the ...

Only a man can be a shaman; women are considered evil and therefore unable to communicate with the supernatural world.

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6 years ago

The study of human behavior through material remains, for which written history in some way affects ...

The study of human behavior through material remains, for which written history in some way affects its interpretation, is

a. prehistorical archaeology.
b. historical archaeology.
c. processual archaeo

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6 years ago

Written records document the historic past. So why do archaeologists do historical archaeology? ...

Written records document the historic past. So why do archaeologists do historical archaeology?

a. Documentary sources can be selective and biased toward the interests of particular cultural, political, or ethnic groups.

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6 years ago

Which of the following is not true of Thomas Jefferson?

Which of the following is not true of Thomas Jefferson?

a. He was the third president of the United States, as well as an architect, inventor, scholar, diplomat, and archaeologist.
b. He had a slave force numberin

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Slave archaeology at Jefferson's Monticello plantation in Virginia has helped interpret historical ...

Slave archaeology at Jefferson's Monticello plantation in Virginia has helped interpret historical records from the time. For instance, written records document that Jefferson moved Critta Hemings (part of his house staff) from a large house with a b

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6 years ago

Bioarchaeological analysis of the burials from the African Burial Ground site in New York City ...

Bioarchaeological analysis of the burials from the African Burial Ground site in New York City showed that

a. nearly all of the burials were individuals > 55 years old; the earliest slaves were therefore treated better than a

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Bioarchaeological analysis of the skeletal remains from the African Burial Ground site determined ...

Bioarchaeological analysis of the skeletal remains from the African Burial Ground site determined that unlike the slaves' lives in New York, their lives in Africa were

a. plagued by malnutrition and severe disease, with abund

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6 years ago

How did public involvement in the African Burial Ground project influence the project's research ...

How did public involvement in the African Burial Ground project influence the project's research design?

a. It had very little influence; the local African-American community had doubts that any of the interred individuals we

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6 years ago

According to Leone, which of the following aspects of Annapolis does not reflect an upper-class ...

According to Leone, which of the following aspects of Annapolis does not reflect an upper-class Anglo-American show of power?

a. The layout of the city itself.
b. The formal gardens of wealthy households.
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6 years ago

Why were Leone and Potter disappointed with the results of the public archaeological tours that they ...

Why were Leone and Potter disappointed with the results of the public archaeological tours that they designed, where tourists often have a chance to walk through the ongoing archaeological excavations in historic Annapolis?

a

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6 years ago

Folklorist Henry Glassie and archaeologist James Deetz both explored the way in which changing ...

Folklorist Henry Glassie and archaeologist James Deetz both explored the way in which changing cultural ideas were reflected in the material record of the American colonies. They took a decidedly _________ approach to the past.

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6 years ago

Which of the following is not a theme of Historical Archaeology?

Which of the following is not a theme of Historical Archaeology?

a. reexamining History
b. revealing hidden history
c. correcting inaccuracies
d. prehistoric Burial Ground
e. ed

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A major concern of modern historical archaeology is uncovering the histories of disenfranchised ...

A major concern of modern historical archaeology is uncovering the histories of disenfranchised groups whose histories have often been ignored or incorrectly recorded.

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6 years ago

In spite of the fact that Thomas Jefferson regarded the institution of slavery as brutal and ...

In spite of the fact that Thomas Jefferson regarded the institution of slavery as brutal and immoral, and that he himself favored its abolition, he nonetheless had a slave force at times numbering 200 people.

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6 years ago

Critical theorists argue that the job of historians (and historical archaeologists) should be to ...

Critical theorists argue that the job of historians (and historical archaeologists) should be to discover the origin of modern class-based ideologies that have been used to rationalize forms of exploitation such as slavery, racism, and sexism.
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Historical archaeology tends to study large scale processes and focuses on the events that shaped ...

Historical archaeology tends to study large scale processes and focuses on the events that shaped entire societies.

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Historical archaeology focuses on the oldest, largest, and most historically significant sites. ...

Historical archaeology focuses on the oldest, largest, and most historically significant sites.

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6 years ago

The recovered remains of enslaved Africans recovered in New York City showed evidence of physical ...

The recovered remains of enslaved Africans recovered in New York City showed evidence of physical demands on their physical labor, as well as signs of disease, which contrasted dramatically with their lives in Africa.

Indicat

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6 years ago

The field that conducts activities related to compliance with legislation that protects cultural ...

The field that conducts activities related to compliance with legislation that protects cultural resources is

a. academic archaeology.
b. historic archaeology.
c. cultural resource management.
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6 years ago

The first legislation to protect all sites on public lands was

The first legislation to protect all sites on public lands was

a. the 1906 Antiquities Act.
b. the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).
c. the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

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6 years ago

Physical features, both natural and artificial, associated with human activity, including sites, ...

Physical features, both natural and artificial, associated with human activity, including sites, structures, and objects possessing significance in history, architecture, or human development are

a. historic landmarks.
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