First Test

Question 1

Archbishop Ussher

Answer 1

Said that the world was formed in 4,004 B.C (6,000 years)

Question 2

Thomsen and Worsaae

Answer 2

Museum person who took the articles and categorized them by Stone, Bronze and Iron age

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

Pioneer in systematic excavation, accurate recording and the use of stratigraphy

Question 4

Sir William Flinders Petrie

Answer 4

Pioneer in systematic excavation

Question 5

General Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

Answer 5

Pioneer in systematic excavation

Question 6

Micael Mercati

Answer 6

Guessed that stone tools were human made

Director of Vatican’s botanical garden

Question 7

James Hutton & Charles Lyell

Answer 7

Argued that processes that shaped the world happened over prolonged periods of time

Question 8

Jaques Boucher de Perthes

Answer 8

Found stone tools along the river

Question 9

William Dugdale

Answer 9

Proved stone artifacts weren’t made by elves

Question 10

Jackson Ambani

Answer 10

Juju man in Kenya

Question 11

John Lubbock

Answer 11

• Invented the idea of paleolithic and neolithic stone ages.
• He supported the theory of natural selection

Question 12

John Frere

Answer 12

First to notice animal bones and stone tools were grouped in certain ages. (Stratigraphy)

Question 13

Uniformitarianism

Answer 13

The earth was changed by gradual processes over time

Question 14

Chaine Operatoire

Answer 14

The life of an artifact. What stages went into making it.

Question 15

In Situ

Answer 15

Objects that are still at the same site

Question 16

Provenience

Answer 16

3D location of artifactual find

Question 17

Association

Answer 17

figure out how artifacts are related

Question 18

Context

Answer 18

Evaluation of archaeological data based on both behavioral and transformational processes by considering matrix, provenience, association.

Question 19

Earliest Lithics

Answer 19

Used to crush plants (2.5mya-300k)

Question 20

Stratigraphy

Answer 20

The layers of sediment that hold certain artifacts in place.

Question 21

Debitage

Answer 21

Debris from making lithics

Question 22

MNI/NISP

Answer 22

MNI- minimum number of individuals

Nisp- Number of identifiable specimens

Question 23

Law of Superposition

Answer 23

Youngest sediment is on top, oldest sediment is on the bottom.

Question 24

Catastrophism

Answer 24

Earth’s appearance came from Catastrophic events

Question 25

Transformation Processes

Answer 25

• Cultural(war,loot,farming)

- Natural(weathering,rust, burrowing)

Question 26

Behavioral Processes

Answer 26

• acquisition
• manufacture
• use
• deposition

Question 27

Jomon

Answer 27

Earliest pottery (Japanese)

Question 28

Wolff’s Law

Answer 28

Bone in a healthy person or animal adapts to stress.