Exam 2: Column One

Question 1

When trees and other plants affect the distribution of artifacts within an archaeological site

Answer 1

Floralturbation

Question 2

When freeze/thaw activity in a soil selectively pushes larger artifacts to the surface of a site

Answer 2

Cryoturbation

Question 3

The use of annual growth rings in trees to assign calendar ages to ancient wood samples

Answer 3

Dendrochrology (tree-ring dating)

Question 4

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Answer 4

Depositional Units

Question 5

each bed of sedimentary rocks is older than the layers above and younger than the layers below

Answer 5

Law of Superposition

Question 6

a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon

Answer 6

Radiocarbon Dating

Question 7

A length of time distinguished by particular item of material culture

Answer 7

Periods

Question 8

Dates expressed relative to one another instead of in absolute terms

Answer 8

Relative dating

Question 9

the time required for half of the carbon-14 available in an organic sample to decay

Answer 9

Half-life

Question 10

A morphological type that has temporal significance; also known as a time marker or index fossil

Answer 10

Temporal types

Question 11

A filled-in animal burrow

Answer 11

Krotovina

Question 12

The delineation of patterns in material culture through space and time

Answer 12

Space/Time Systematics