Major Archaeological Sites

Question 1

Tybrind Vig
Vedbaek
Starr Carr
Lepenski Vir

Answer 1

Mesolithic Europe

Question 2

Carrier Mills
Poverty Point

Answer 2

Archaic North America

Question 3

‘Ain Mallaha
Gobekli Tepe
Abu Huyera
Jericho
Catalhoyuk

Answer 3

Epipaleolithic Natufians

Question 4

Varna
New Grange
Carnac
Stonehenge

Answer 4

Neolithic Europe

Question 5

Hopewell
Trempealeau

Answer 5

Middle Woodland

Question 6

Effigy Mounds

Answer 6

Late Woodland

Question 7

Cahokia
Aztalan

Answer 7

Mississippian

Question 8

Chaco Canyon/Pueblo Bonito
Ozette
San Lorenzo

Answer 8

Other North America

Question 9

Passive marine hunting and oldest preserved textiles.

Answer 9

Tybrind Vig, NW Europe

Question 10

Diverse marine diet and seasonal fishing gatherings.

Answer 10

Vedbaek, NW Europe

Question 11

Preserved village with advanced woodworking. Trade of ornaments such as amber beads.

Answer 11

Starr Carr, NW Europe

Question 12

Seasonal village to intercept fish populations. Earliest free-standing stone sculptures (little faces). Trapezoidal permanent housing.

Answer 12

Lepenski Vir, NW Europe

Question 13

Cemetery that showcases increased sedentism and territoriality.

Answer 13

Carrier Mills, South USA

Question 14

Semi-circular earthworks that show increased social integration. Not occupied for the whole year.

Answer 14

Poverty Point, South USA

Question 15

Earliest settled HG village. Grain processing village. Lots of tooth decay.

Answer 15

‘Ain Mallaha, Fertile Crescent

Question 16

Oldest free-standing megaliths and the first temple. HG meeting place.

Answer 16

Gobekli Tepe, Fertile Crescent

Question 17

Transition to agriculture in Natufians. Transition from HG to modern village. Tell settlement.

Answer 17

Abu Huyeyra, Fertile Crescent

Question 18

Massive walled tell settlement. More territoriality and expanded trade networks.

Answer 18

Jericho, Fertile Crescent

Question 19

Earliest farming town. Large amount of ritual burials.

Answer 19

Catalhoyuk, Fertile Crescent

Question 20

Extremely rich man’s grave, “Varna Man”. Extreme social inequality.

Answer 20

Varna, Europe

Question 21

Largest passage tomb and communal burials.

Answer 21

New Grange, Europe

Question 22

Dense collection of menhirs.

Answer 22

Carnac, Europe

Question 23

Large henge with megaliths. Built over time, for ritual gatherings. Non-native stones show tribal integration.

Answer 23

Stonehenge, Europe

Question 24

Largest Hopewell culture mound. 250 highly important individuals.

Answer 24

Hopewell Site, Eastern North America

Question 25

Type site for Hopewell culture mounds and Hopewell Interaction Sphere artifacts.

Answer 25

Trempealeau, Eastern North America

Question 26

Animal-shaped burial mounds.

Answer 26

Effigy Mounds, Midwest

Question 27

Largest and most powerful chiefdom in NA. Platform mounds, walled-in central plaza (Monk’s Mound). Extreme social inequality.

Answer 27

Cahokia, IL

Question 28

Major Mississippian mound center. Princess of Aztalan shows regional variance in social structure.

Answer 28

Aztalan, WI

Question 29

Heart of Ancestral Puebloan culture. Held Pueblo Bonito, the largest great house that had many kivas, gathering places, and was used as a trading location. Regional road system.

Answer 29

Chaco Canyon, Four Corners

Question 30

Marine village preserved by mudslide. Social status organized in houses. Teamwork between archaeologists and tribe members, new technology made to excavate waterlogged sites.

Answer 30

Ozette, Pacific Northwest

Question 31

Late Olmec center for ritual and trade. Large central plaza platform mound similar to Monk’s Mound. Reservoirs to control water supply.

Answer 31

San Lorenzo, Mesoamerica