Cultural Resources

Question 1

Anthropology
Archaeology
Cultural Landscapes
Historic Preservation
Living Cultures

Answer 1

Cultural resource examples

Question 2

“devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. Entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divine things.”

Answer 2

Sacred

Question 3

“a cumulative body of knowledge and beliefs, handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings with another and their environment.”

Answer 3

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Question 4

Defining a problem
Collecting data through observation and experimentation
 Formulating and testing of a hypotheses

Answer 4

Scientific Knowledge

Question 5

Allow the indigenous cultures equal responsibilities in the management of cultural resources on public land.

Answer 5

Power sharing and decision-making

Question 6

native indigenous cultures were moved out of the park. Who were they? Bannock, Shoshone, Crow, Blackfeet, Lakota, Nez Perce, and Flathead

Answer 6

1872 Yellowstone National Park Act

Question 7

“to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for future generations.”

Answer 7

National Park Service Organic Act of 1916

Question 8

governs the excavation of archaeological sites on federal and Indian lands in the U.S. and the removal and disposition of archaeological collections from those sites.

Answer 8

Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (a.k.a. ARPA)

Question 9

Act requires federal agencies and institution that receive federal funding to return Native American “cultural items” to lineal descendants and culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian… Cultural items include human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony.

Answer 9

Repatriation Act of 1990 (a.k.a. NAGPRA)

Question 10

“ensures that interests in religious freedom are protected.”

Answer 10

Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993

Question 11

images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as “carving”, “engraving”

Answer 11

Petroglyph

Question 12

an ancient or prehistoric drawing or painting on a rock wall; one of the symbols belonging to a pictorial graphic system.

Answer 12

Pictograph