Final Flashcards
What is “culture”?
What is cultural relativism?
What is “context” in archaeology and why is it so important?
What is ethnocentrism?
What is “participant observation”?
What did The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 do?
What is the primary importance of The Antiquities Act of 1906?
What is a subsistence pattern
What is Science?
What is a hypothesis?
To refer to something as a theory means that?
What is a unique research strategy of anthropologists which involves learning the language and culture of a
group by participating in the groups daily activities is called?
The systematic study of the material remains (culture) of human behavior in the past is conducted by?
The statute that makes it necessary for federal projects to ease and notify appropriate tribal representatives
if human remains are encountered during archaeological investigations is?
The subfields of anthropology as practiced in America do not include?
To achieve the basic and primary goal of archaeology, which is to understand humans in order to attempt
to reconstruct their cultural past, archaeology requires?
What is historical archaeology?
The term “Cultural Resource Management” (CRM) refers to?
What does the term “material culture” refer to?
What is an archaeological feature?
Why is research design so important in archaeology, and when is it most likely to be done?
What are people often called who look for artifacts as a hobby (not professionally)?
What was the “Moundbuilders Myth”?
The primary reason that most scholars of the 1800s did not believe Native Americans had constructed the
earthen mounds of North America was?
What is the first step of planning excavation research is to?
One of the three major criteria for classifying archaeology sites is based on the function of a site. Why is
determining the function of a site useful?
When a site is classified by its function, it is defined by?
The main characteristic shared by all hunting and gathering societies past and present is?
Anthropologists use the term “pastoralists’ to refer to peoples who?
What is the definition of the word “midden” in archaeology?
What is an ecofact in archaeology?
How are ecofacts different from artifacts?
A Hearth is an example of a type of feature. Other types of features are pits (probably the most common),
burials, post molds, etc. Why are features important to the interpretation of an archaeological site?
Which of the following is an example of a feature?
Compared with hunting and gathering band-level societies, tribal societies are?
A hunting and gathering or food foraging society depends on _________ for food?
The first step in archaeological fieldwork is usually?
When are Excavations undertaken?
Surface collections and test level excavations are techniques archaeologists use to?
Archaeologists may use auger probes to determine the depth of historic graves, shovel test pits to identify
archaeological sites, trenches to excavate across a site. What is stratigraphy useful for?
What kinds of tools might you find in an archaeologist’s tool kit?
42) Why is screening useful in archaeology
Screening involves
After the excavation is finished, archaeologist go back to the lab to begin analyzing the data (artifacts,
etc.). The first step in analysis is?
Bifaces, blades, and cores are all types of lithic artifacts/ What does the term “lithics” mean?
Why is it so important that archaeologists take careful, detailed notes of their excavations?
What are some Hollywood stereotype of archaeologists?
It is essential that archaeologists take abundant, accurate, and detailed field notes during excavations
because?
The federal law that states that federal agencies are responsible for identifying and evaluating all sites in
areas to be developed, to determine eligibility for the National Register is?
What is created when the remnants of human activity are covered or buried by some natural process
resulting in an accumulation of artifacts?
