Midterm 2

Question 1

Heracleion

Answer 1

• located in Abu Qir Bay, near Alexandria (Egypt)
• 30 feet deep in bay
• main new kingdom trading port
• sank in 3rd century BCE due to liquifaction
• Atlantis?

Question 2

Solar boats

Answer 2

• great pyramid

- used to carry souls into eternity

Question 3

Canonic jar

Answer 3

• Egypt
• where major organs were removed and put
• during time of mummification

Question 4

Sir Leonard Woolley

Answer 4

• discovered royal cemetery of Ur
• 2000 flexed burials wrapped in reed matting
• ‘royal cemetery’ with 16 elaborate burials, including chariots and sacrifices

Question 5

Batavia’s graveyard

Answer 5

• united Dutch Eastt Indian Company ship struck reef off Western Australia
• plan to capture rescue ships and kill remaining survivors
• pelsaert captain
• human remains- identification?
• 4 burials found
• Predicant family

Question 6

Amarna

Answer 6

Where Akhenaten retreated with his court

Question 7

Longshan

Answer 7

• china
• defined by wheel- made pottery found over large area
• first emperor may have been Huang Di
• pit houses around the central long house, larger villages than Yangshao period
• agricultural intensification using manure irrigation- more evidence of rice– pigs

Question 8

Qin Shi Huang

Answer 8

• Qin dynasty

- terracotta warriors

Question 9

Terraces warriors

Answer 9

• Qin dynasty
• Qin Shi Huang
• mould clay
  / individualized with diff hair and facial expressions

Question 10

KV 5

Answer 10

• largest tomb found in Egypt
• 52 sons of Ramesses II
• Howard carter

Question 11

Okunev burials

Answer 11

• southern Siberi minusinok hollow, near lake Baikal
• burial mounds with standing stones
• burials in small boxes, on back with legs bent up
• many buried without skulls, and other containers with multiple skulls
• stone monuments
• masks

Question 12

Mycenae

Answer 12

• to understand Trojan war & pursue heroes in Greece who has led campaign against Trojans (Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and leader of the Greek expedition to Troy)
• six shaft graves within low circular rubber wall
• gold= burials of rulers
• grave circle B

Question 13

Forensic anthropology

Answer 13

• a special sub-field of physical anthropology that involved applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to solving criminal cases

Question 14

Fag al- Gamous

Answer 14

• cemetery near Faiyum
• estimated 1 million mummies in total
• preserved in dry conditions
• Egyptian cemetery during period of roman rule

Question 15

Herculaneum

Answer 15

• volcano eruption.

- few bodies found initially, then found in boat sheds

Question 16

Avenue of the dead

Answer 16

• teotihuacan
• main road down city centre
• Aztecs
• named after mounds that looked like tombs at edge of sideway

Question 17

Margarita tomb

Answer 17

• female buried within structure called margarita
• red mercury based powder (cinnabar) sprinkled over her decomposing bones
• likely linked to reaffirmation of the legitimacy of the current ruling dynasty

Question 18

Tikal

Answer 18

• place sacrifice, way of communicating with supernatural

- city, conquered by Teotihuacan

Question 19

Temple of the inscriptions

Answer 19

• largest mesoamerican stepped pyramid , maya
• funerary monument k’inicj Jana. pakal
• hieroglyphic texts
• resting place of pakal
• imestone sarcophagus
• jade artifacts and mask

Question 20

Red queen

Answer 20

• Palenque (Maya)
• remains unknown noblewoman
• covered with bright red cinnabar powder when tomb was discovered
• temple XIII

Question 21

Anzick

Answer 21

• Clovis child
• closest relation is with Asia consistent with Bering Strait
• found with stone tools dusted with red ocher in western Montana
• Native American

Question 22

Okunev burials

Answer 22

• southern Siberia near Lake Baikal
• burial mounds (kurgans) with standing stones
• burials in small boxes, on back with legs bent up
• many buried without skulls, and other containers with multiple skulls