Quiz

Question 1

Define Anthropology

Answer 1

• Study of humankind
• documenting and analysis of material culture

Question 2

What is the difference between an artifact and a sample

Answer 2

• Artifact is unique to humans specifically
• Samples are the soil and plant/pollen

Question 3

What are the four main subdisciplines of anthropology?

Answer 3

Physical/ Biological
Cultural
Linguistic
Archaeology

Question 4

Match with the term:
People being
People talking
People living
People leaving

Answer 4

Cultural
Linguistic
Biological
Archaeology

Question 5

What is the period before written records called?

Answer 5

Prehistoric

Question 6

What is the period of written records called?

Answer 6

Historic

Question 7

What is Excavation?

Answer 7

Uncovering and REMOVING matter covering an item, such as artifacts.

Question 8

What is the main difference between Paleontology and Archaeology?

Answer 8

Paleontology is the study of old
- like really old/ before humans

Question 9

What does Neolithic mean?

Answer 9

Neo= new
lithic= stone
meaning, new stone age

Question 10

Which lithic age did they shape their rocks?

Answer 10

Neolithic

Question 11

Which lithic age did they use rocks as they were?

Answer 11

Paleolithic

Question 12

What does Paleolithic mean?

Answer 12

Paleo= old
lithic= stone
meaning, old stone age

Question 13

What is the term that means times and locations are constant and that consistency can be identified and may even be key to defining a region?

Answer 13

Uninformity

Question 14

What is stratification?

Answer 14

Earth consist of layers, within is related time.

Question 15

What do you call it when things are influenced and closer in time together by distance to each other?

Answer 15

Proximity

Question 15

How do you read stratigraphy?

Answer 15

The bottom layer is the oldest , the top layer it the younger (superposition) and any disruption to the soil is the newest (cross-cutting)

Question 16

Which method of Geophysical Stratigraphy is commonly used today?

Answer 16

Munsell System

Question 17

What are the (4) methods of Geophysical Stratigraphy?

Answer 17

• Colorimetry (Spectrophotometry)
• Munsell System
• Electro-Resistive Tomography
• Magnetometry

Question 18

What method of Geophysical Stratigraphy did they use to identify tectonic plates?

Answer 18

Magnetometry

Question 19

Which dating method uses tree rings? And where does it not work?

Answer 19

Dendrochronology used tree rings as a dating method. It doesn’t work in the tropics due to constant rain fall.

Question 20

In what ways can you use dendrochronology to determine date?

Answer 20

Tree rings and calibrate radiocarbon dating

Question 21

What trees do not work in Dendrochronology and why?

Answer 21

Red Wood trees do not work because as they grow they become hollow in the center destroying tree rings

Question 22

What is Biome?

Answer 22

large, naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat

Question 23

What is a cultural Landscape?

Answer 23

A historically significant property that shows evidence of human interaction with the physical environment

Question 24

What is anthropogenic landscape?

Answer 24

Land that was modified by humans actions in the past or present