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Question 1
Myths, along with rituals and religious rites _________.
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See Chapter 1, "In the Beginning" section.
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are the same the world over
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function to create context for humans
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have no truth except for the Western religions.
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are only symbolic in western religions
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What is pseudoarchaeology?
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the study of the Pseud tribe, important precursors to the Inka
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the accepted scientific post-modernist study of archaeology
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the god in the creation myth of the Pharaohs
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the non-scientific study of archaeology, which relies on far-fetched
theories based on fantasy and myth
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The only method Western science has of studying cultural change through time is
__________.
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Although this fact does not give those who are specialists in this field
unique authority over the past.
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See Chapter 1, "Pseudoarchaeology" section.
See Chapter 1, "Cyclical and Linear Time" section.
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oral tradition
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social behavior
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a group identity
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archaeology
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Anthropologists developed this concept to describe the distinctive adaptive system used by
humans.
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This can also be called a society's traditional systems of belief and
behavior, as understood by individuals and the members of social
groups and as manifested in individual or collective behaviors.
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culture system
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culture
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cultural process
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learned behavior
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What is the process whereby new ideas spread without the physical movement of many
people?
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A classic modern example of this process is tobacco smoking, a favorite
pleasure of North American Indians that was adopted by Elizabethan
colonists in the sixteenth century.
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See Chapter 1, "The Mechanisms of Culture Change" section.
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invention
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diffusion
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migration
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adoption
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When a culture writes or talks about their past, it is probably ________, compared to the
data that archaeologists generate.
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Often myths have similar formulas and themes, whereas the data does
not have a pre-determined outcome.
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Question 7
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See Chapter 1, "Written Records, Oral Histories, and Archaeology"
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truthful
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biased
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wrong
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sacred
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Which of the following emphasizes cultural systems and ecology in interpreting human
culture as adaptation to an environment?
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Under this approach, human behavior, both today and in the remote
past, is an adaptation not to a single site but to environmental regions.
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cultural process
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cultural system
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cultural evolution
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culture as adaptation
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Question 9
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Context is an important concept for archaeologists. It means __________.
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The relationships between objects can tell us more than the objects
themselves.
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knowing the exact location of the best artifacts
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the latitude, longitude, depth, and date of anything related to the
archaeological site
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the latitude and longitude of all the settlements
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how old everything at a site is
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If two separated cultures develop a common technology, then the cultural context of that
knowledge is probably ___________.
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For example, consider bronze metallurgy development in the Shang
civilization of China and the Moche culture in coastal Peru.
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See Chapter 1, "Context" section.
See Chapter 1, "Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change" section.
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very similar
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very different
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shared
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externally affected
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What is ethnoarchaeology?
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Studying living societies and watching how sites develop can let us
know about ancient sites.
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archaeology done by Native Americans
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doing archaeology on the modern remains of living groups
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all the archeology surrounding Mt. Etna
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archaeology on the !Kung San people in Africa
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Why is it difficult for archaeologists to rely heavily on information from the "ethnographic
present" to reconstruct past lifeways?
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Cultures are never 'pristine', they are constantly evolving.
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Peoples in contemporary cultures sometimes do not permit
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interviews with researchers.
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There is often no continuity between past and present human
behavior
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Cultures are in a constant state of change.
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Archaeologists can't speak the languages of many cultures.
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These pre-state societies are often the most difficult to define due to their tendency to vary
greatly in organization and complexity.
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They cycle rapidly from powerful to collapse.
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tribes
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bands
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states
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chiefdoms
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See Chapter 1, "Science: Dating the Past" section.
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historical records
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dendrochronology
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potassium-argon dating
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radiocarbon dating
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The ultimate goal of post- processual archaeology is to look at __________.
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Trying to get into the minds of past people is hard, and can be thought
of as irrelevant, but it does bring up some interesting questions about
the past.
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Which dating method uses organic samples like charcoal, shell, wood, hair, and other
materials?
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This method can be used to date most of prehistory after about 40,000
years ago.
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Question 14
See Chapter 1, "Science: Ancient Social Organization"
See Chapter 1, "Intangibles: Ideology and Interaction" section.
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material remains
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bones
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living cultures
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intangible ideas behind societies
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What is culture history?
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Looking at groups of sites and artifacts, local and regional sequences
can be established.
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See Chapter 1, "Culture History, Time, Space, and the Myth of the
Ethnographic Present" section.
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the oral traditions of a culture
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the history of archaeology at a site
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putting pot designs in order
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the description of human cultures through time
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