Sites for Midterm #2

Question 1

SITE: Cowboy Wash (4) (EVDN)

Answer 1

1) Example of cannibalism
2) village with 2 areas of scattered bones
3) disarticulated and damaged
4) not in burial context

Question 2

Site: Varna, Bulgaria (7) (E6G2SDO)

Answer 2

1) Example of burial
2) 6000 ya
3) graveyard outside settlement
4) 280 tombs
5) some rich, some poor
6) Death part of public sphere
7) over 1000 objects (many gold, status signaling)

Question 3

Site: Los Millares, Spain (5) (E518G)

Answer 3

1) example of burial/tomb
2) 5000 ya
3) 1140 individuals
4) 80 tombs (spatial hierarchy)
5) grade goods from Africa (ivory, ostrich eggs) (higher status graves on top)

Question 4

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

Answer 4

1) Example of rise of “warrior” class (bell beaker pottery)
2) burial near stonehenge
3) archery equipment
4) metal working tools
5) bell beaks

Question 5

Site: Biskupin, Polan (4) (EIMT)

Answer 5

1) Example of raiding
2) indirect evidence
3) marshy isle
4) Timber palisade

Question 6

Site: Talheim (3) (EDG)

Answer 6

1) Example of raiding
2) direct evidence
3) Germany (LBK) 7000 ya (34 bodies, wounds in back and no defesnsive wounds)

Question 7

Site: Timbuktu (3) (EN1)

Answer 7

1) Example of nomadic trading
2) nomadic camp
3) 1000 ya

Question 8

Site: Eridu, Iraq (3) (EMS)

Answer 8

1) example of Ubaid period (Mesopotamia)
2) mud-brick structures
3) sequences span entire world

Question 9

Site: Uruk, Iraq (3) (ETO)

Answer 9

1) Example of Uruk Period (Mesopotamia)
2) “type site”
3) oldest known city in the world

Question 10

Site: Ur, Iraq

Answer 10

1) example of Early Dynastic period (Mesopotamia)
2) dedicated to moon g-d
3) organized around ziggurat/temple

Question 11

Site: Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt (3) (EPR)

Answer 11

1) Example of Pre-dyanstic period (Egypt)
2) possible first pharaoh
3) ruler: “Scopion King”

Question 12

Site: Step Pyramid of Saqqara (3) (ELAF)

Answer 12

1) Example of Mortuary complexes
2) lower Egypt, pharaoh Joser
3) architect Imohtep
4) first pyramid

Question 13

Site: Giza, Lower Egypt

Answer 13

1) Example of Motruary complexes
2) tombs for 4th dynasty kings
3) larger and most complex pyramids in Egypt

Question 14

Site: San Bartolo, Guatamala (3) (EPD)

Answer 14

1) example of principles of kingship
2) part of formative period (Maya)
3) dense jungles (vegetation can cover archaeological sites

Question 15

Site: Copan, Honduras (4) (EMNA)

Answer 15

1) example of structure of Maya city/states
2) mountains different resources t
than Tikal
3) near resource of jade- mayan royalty
4) alli to Tikal

Question 16

Site: Mehrgarh (4) (E8M2)

Answer 16

1) Example of precursor of Indus state
2) 8000 ya
3) mud-brick
4) 25q km “neighborhoods” (well-organized village)

Question 17

Site: Mohenjo-Daro (5) (EDN4t)

Answer 17

1) Example of Era of integration
2) destroyed (floods) and rebuilt
3) natural ridge above plain (expanded with mud-brick platforms)
4) 494 acres
5) two zones: Civic and residential