SITES for Midterm #1

Question 1

SITE: Ashkelon, Israel (2) (EP)

Answer 1

1) example of microarchaeological technique

2) “plaster” was actually decayed plans and fecal material

Question 2

SITE: Kebara Cave, Israel (2) (ES)

Answer 2

1) example of neanderthal language capability

2) skeleton with intact hyoid bone

Question 3

SITE: La Cotte de St. Brelade, English Channel (3) (E2S)

Answer 3

1) example of organized hunting
2) 20 mammoths and swoolly rhinos
3) stampedes

Question 4

SITE: Kostenski, Russia (4) (ESCS)

Answer 4

1) example of gravettian characteristics
2) semi-subterranian dwellings (mammoth bone/fur)
3) central hearths
4) storage pits

Question 5

SITE: Sungir, eastern Europe (3) (ECP)

Answer 5

1) example of new burial practices in the Gravettian
2) child burial with grave goods
3) possible inherited status

Question 6

SITE: Chauvet Cave (3) (E3O)

Answer 6

1) example of homo sapien art in the aurignacian
2) 38,000 ya
3) oldest cave art

Question 7

SITE: Yana River, Siberia (4) (E3EM)

Answer 7

1) example of Early Arrival model
2) 30,000 ya
3) earliest evidence near Beringia
4) mega fauna bones and flake tools

Question 8

SITE: Pedra Furada, Brazil (5) (E4BSP)

Answer 8

1) example of early arrival model
2) 48,000-35,000 ya
3) burnt earth
4) simple “tools”
5) possible tools for “geo-facts”
(site consisted of very little)

Question 9

SITE: Monte Verde, Chile (7) (E1SORSA)

Answer 9

1) example of pre-clovis model
2) 15,000 ya very well dated
3) settlement with wood and hide tents
4) organic remains
5) rope, wood, tools, stone points (not clovis)
6) seed=foraging
7) animal bones (hunts large and small game)

Question 10

SITE: Blackwater Draw, NM (4) (EFMT)

Answer 10

1) example of clovis first model
2) first discovery of clovis points
3) megafauna remains- 13,000ya
4) typical clovis site

Question 11

SITE: Gault, TX (3) (EIN)

Answer 11

1) example of clovis first model
2) incised limestone slab- unclear
3) not typical

Question 12

SITE: Meadowcroft (2) (EM)

Answer 12

1) example of Solutrean hypothesis

2) “mille point”(evidence that this route of migration people came from Europe not Asia)

Question 13

SITE: Ohalo, Israel (4) (ES2H)

Answer 13

1) example of Kebaran period
2) seasonal camp
3) 20,000 ya
4) huts and hearths

Question 14

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

SITE: Gobleki Tepe, Turkey (4) (E1NM)

Answer 15

1) example of rise of religion during the nutufian
2) 11,600 ya
3) no habitation
4) might be remains of a religious pilgrimage

Question 16

SITE: Jerf el Ahmar, Syria

Answer 16

1) example of PPNA
2) communal archetecture (large central structure w/ small cubicles)
3) possible communal storage

Question 17

SITE: Tehuacan Valley (5) (ECCLS)

Answer 17

1) example of the archaic period in Central America
2) cave, Highland, Mexico
3) corn 5,500
4) long sequence of occupations
5) Strata show change from teosinte (wild precursor) to maize

Question 18

SITE: Cerro Juanqueno, North Mexico (4) (E5SC)

Answer 18

1) example of development in the North America during late Archaic
2) 500 rock-lined terraces
3) sotrage pits & post holes
4) cultivated maize: 3,000 ya

Question 19

SITE: Hohlenstein, Germany (4) (EAMB)

Answer 19

1) example of homo sapien art
2) aurignacian period
3) mobiliary art (“lion man” and “venus figurine”
4) bone flute (music)