Sites for Final

Question 1

SITE: Kebara Cave (3) (EID)

Answer 1

1) Example of Neanderthal language capability
2) In Middle East, a neanderthal skeleton found with intact Hyoid bone
3) Demonstrates Neanderthals would have been physically capable of producing speech sounds

Question 2

SITE: Chauvet Cave (3) (E3O)

Answer 2

1) Example of Homo sapien art in the Aurignacian period Upper paleolithic
2) 38,000-33,000 ya
3) oldest cave art

Question 3

SITE: Pedra Furada, Brazil (6) (E4BSPP)

Answer 3

1) Example of the Early Arrival theory
2) 48,000-35,000 ya
3) burnt earth
4) simple “tools” (site consists of very little)
5) possible tools or”geo facts)
6) possible hearths or wildfires

Question 4

SITE: Monte Verde, Chile (4) (E1SF)

Answer 4

1) Example of Pre-Clovis model
2) 15,000 ya
3) settlement with wood and hide tents
4) findings of organic remains and rope, wood, tools, stone points (not clovis)

Question 5

SITE: Blackwater Draw, NM (3) (EFT)

Answer 5

1) Example of Clovis first model and clovis “culture”
2) first discovery of clovis points with mega fauna remains (13,000ya)
3) typical “clovis” site

Question 6

SITE: Hilazon Tachtit, Israel (5) (ECDEP)

Answer 6

1) Example of rise of religion during the Natufian
2) cave burial
3) disabled elderly (45yrs old) female
4) exotic animals (tortoise shells, golden eagle leopard, human foot)
5) possible shaman

Question 7

SITE: Gobekli Tepe, Turkey (5) (E1NSM)

Answer 7

1) example of rise of religion during the Natufian
2) 11,600 ya
3) not a village but a possible religious pilgramage
4) successive rings of standing stones, many carved with wild animals.
5) may demonstrate that organized religion predates the rise of settled village life and agriculture

Question 8

SITE: Tehuacan Valley (6) (ECCLMS)

Answer 8

1) example of domestication in Central america (Arachaic)
2) cave highland Mexico
3) corn 5500 ya
4) long sequence of occupations
5) most comprehensive evidence of domestication of corn
6) Strata show change from teosinte to maize.

Question 9

SITE: Los Millares, Spain (5) (E581G)

Answer 9

1) Example of cemetery (European complexity)
2) 5000 ya
3) 80 tombs- spatial hierarchy
4) 1140 individuals
5) grave goods from Africa (ivory, ostrich eggs) (higher status on top)

Question 10

SITE: Amesbury Archer (burial) (5) (EBAMB)

Answer 10

1) example of rise of warrior class
2) burial near stonehenge
3) archery equipment
4) metal working tools
5) bell beaks

Question 11

SITE: Talheim (4) (EGMD)

Answer 11

1) example of raiding in Europe
2) Germany (LBK) 7000 ya (34 bodies, wounds in back and no defensive wounds)
3) massgraves (war or disease)
4) direct evidence

Question 12

SITE: Timbuktu (3) (E1N)

Answer 12

1) example of saharan african trading
2) 1000 ya
3) nomadic camp

Question 13

SITE: Great Zimbabwe (2)( E6)

Answer 13

1) example of sub saharan trade

2) 670-250ya

Question 14

SITE: Eridu, Iraq (3) (EMS)

Answer 14

1) example of the Ubaid period
2) mud-brick structures
3) sequences span the entire Ubaid

Question 15

SITE: Uruk, Iraq (5) (ETOOB)

Answer 15

1) example of Uruk Period
2) “Type site”
3) oldest known city in the world
4) origins in Ubaid period (2 smaller sites merge into 1)
5) banks of Euphrates grows to 2.5 km2 (20,000-40,000 people)

Question 16

SITE: Step Pyramid of Saqqara (4) (ELAF)

Answer 16

1) example of morturary complex in Egypt
2) lower Egypt, pharaoh Joser
3) architect Imohtep
4) first pyramid

Question 17

SITE: mohenjo-Daro (5) (EDN4T)

Answer 17

1) example of Era of Intergration
2) destroyed (floods) and rebuilt
3) natural ridge above plain (expand with mud-brick)
4) 494 acres
5) two zones: civic (citadel) and resdential

Question 18

SITE: Copan, Honduras (4) (EMYA)

Answer 18

1) example of principle of Kingship
2) mountains different resources than Tikal (near resource of jade=mayan royalty)
3) yax k’uk Mo’s tomb
4) Altar Q

Question 19

SITE: Machu Picchu (4) (EICS)

Answer 19

1) Example of Inca Cities
2) Inca Pacachuti (Inca Emperor)
3) ceremonial retreat
4) sacred landscape

Question 20

SITE: Tenochtitlan (4) (EAUC)

Answer 20

1) Example of Aztec origin story and history
2) aztec capital
3) under Modern Mexico City
4) canals=streets

Question 21

SITE: Heerman’s Warehouse, Pearl and whitehall (4) (EFDH)

Answer 21

1) exmample of New Amsterdam and interaction with Lenape
2) Foundation floor and roof tiles
3) dutch coins
4) historical records: Hudson furs, virginia tobacco

Question 22

SITE: Stadt Huys Block Pearl and Coenties Alley (4) (EGOL)

Answer 22

1) example of New Amsterdam and interaction with Lenape
2) Goldman Sach’s headquarters
3) Old Dutch City Hall
4) Lovelace Tavern (clay pipes, wine bottles and glasses)

Question 23

SITE: 175 Water Street (5) (EMFSH)

Answer 23

1) Example of Colonial New York
2) Merhcant vessel, early 1700s
3) fitting stripped
4) sunk for landfill
5) holes in hull= tropical worms (west Indies trade)

Question 24

SITE: City Hall Park (3) (ECB)

Answer 24

1) Example of Colonial New York
2) City’s first almhouse (1730s)
3) Button Manufacture= work for goods/shelter

Question 25

SITE: Greenwich Village

Answer 25

1) Example of Colonial New York
2) Sheridan square
3) post holes and plow furrows

Question 26

SITE: Hessian Soldiers camp (Inwood) (3) (E5H)

Answer 26

1) Example Of Revolutionary War NYC
2) 50 huts: winter camp
3) huts included regimental buttons, needles (patching) liquor bottles, musket ball molds, carved balls (dice)

Question 27

SITE: Five Points Slum 500 Pearl, 1800s (4) (EBMM)

Answer 27

1) Example of Federal NY
2) Birth of the Middle Class
3) Mass produced good similar to wealthier areas
4) More stable part of city than previously realized

Question 28

SITE: African Burial Ground, Elk and Duane (5) (E4IBF)

Answer 28

1) example of Federal NY
2) 400 burials, 6 acres
3) in used over a century (closed 1794)
4) both enslaved and free africans
5) females buried with fetal infants