Midterm

Question 1

Archaeology

Answer 1

Study of human past through material remains with the aim of reconstructing, ordering, and describing daily life, customs, and events of past people

Question 2

Artifact

Answer 2

Any portable object made or modified by humans

Question 3

Context

Answer 3

Relationship between artifacts and everything else

Question 4

Cultural Anthropology

Answer 4

Study of human cultural variation

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

A uniquely human means of non-biological adaptation: a set of learned behaviors for coping with the physical and social environments

Question 6

Stratigraphy

Answer 6

Study of stratum a horizontal layer of material, esp. one of several parallel layers arranged one on top of the other

Question 7

Processual Archaeology

Answer 7

Context GO BACK

Question 8

Eco facts

Answer 8

Biological material that has NOT been modified by humans

Question 9

Feature

Answer 9

Immovable evidence of human activity

Question 10

Provenience

Answer 10

An artifact’s provenience, or physical location in three dimensions, is the most important thing about the artifact

Question 11

Ethnoarchaeology

Answer 11

Is the study of the ways that material culture (artifacts) interact in a modern living cultist stem before being lost in the archeological record

Question 12

Speculation

Answer 12

Is a guess about something that is unknown.

Question 13

Remote sensing

Answer 13

Allows archaeological sites to be investigated without destroying them.

Common methods

• ground penetrating radar
• magnetometry
• electrical resistivity

Question 14

Site

Answer 14

The set of artifacts, eco facts, and features that define places in the landscape where activity was focused

Question 15

Sampling

Answer 15

The processes used to examine part of the available material in order to derive trustworthy statements about all of it.

Question 16

Lithic

Answer 16

Tools made from stone

Question 17

Faience

Answer 17

Powdered quartz covered with a vitreous alkaline glaze

Question 18

Hypothesis

Answer 18

A proposition proposed as an explanation of some phenomenon

Question 19

Theory

Answer 19

An explanation for observed, empirical phenomena. It seeks to explain the relationships between variables; it is an answer to a “why” question

Question 20

Projectile points

Answer 20

Arrowheads, dart points, or spear points.

Question 21

Strata

Answer 21

More or less homogeneous or gradational material, visually separable from other levels by a discrete change in the charter of the material-texture, compactness, color, rock, organic content- and/or by a sharp break in the nature of deposition

Question 22

Anthropology

Answer 22

Is the study of human variation and evolution