This quiz titled 'SOCA 105 final #1' assesses knowledge in archaeology, focusing on distinctions within anthropology, historical and prehistoric archaeology, and methodologies like ethnographic analogy. It aims to evaluate understanding of archaeological goals and site analysis techniques, crucial for students in archaeology and anthropology.
Find objects for archaeological museums
Fund research by selling ancient treasures
Understand the human past
Continue the tradition of romance and adventure in exotic places
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To record the exact location of an artifact accurately, both horizontally and vertically
To tell relic collectors where to find artifacts to sell to private collections
To provide electricity to primitive villages
To cook bacon
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Reflexivity
Hermeneutics
Ethnocentrism
Egocentrism
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Ethnologists
Archaeologists
Forensic anthropologists
Anthropological linguists
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It is emperical
It is systematic and explicit
It always provides the right answer to a question
It is self-critical, always trying to prove itself wrong
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Context can reveal valuable information about the artifact's use, age, and relationship to other artifacts and features
Archaeologist are jealous of collectors and museums
Written descriptions of artifacts are always biased and incorrect
Objects by themselves cannot be preserved as objects if they are taken out of their archaeological context
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Hunters were using Clovis-style tools to hunt mammoths
People were living in what is now the eastern US (near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) earlier than the well-dated Clovis people lived in North America
Native americans are closely related to australian aborigines
Cave painting was not restricted to sites in western Europe
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Article
Artifact
Act
Item
Fossil
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Establish a datum & grid pattern system
Using heavy machinery to strip off modern vegetation and expose the archaeological deposit
Reassembling the archaeological site from the field notes and photographs
Dating artifacts and features
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Artifacts
Fossils
Ecofacts
Antiquaries
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Flotation
Stratification
A datum point
A grid system
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A datum point provides a universal reference point that can be used across any archaeological site, allowing archaeologists to easily compare data between excavations
While vertical provenience could easily be measured from the ground surface, obtaining accurate horizontal provenience would be much more difficult without a datum point
The ground surface does not have the same elevation consistency across a site while a datum point provides a fixed reference
Use of a datum point is an archaeological tradition established in the early 20th century; while it serves no useful purpose, it is an example of how outdated excavation methodology is still embedded in archaeology today
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A fossil
An object made or modified by humans
Anything found at an archaeological site
Any object that provides ecofacts
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Bones of animals that people have eaten
Garbage
The hardened remains of a skeletal structure
Hearths
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Is just a guess
Has yet to be proved
Has been well supported by scientific testing
Is probably not scientific
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Archaeologists almost always work in dangerous, tropical places
Archaeologists wear hats, leather jackets, and khakis
Archaeologists are trained professionals who try to reconstruct human behavior in the past
Archaeologists are only interested in artifacts as objects for museums
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When determining whether or not field school students understand archaeological field methods
When trying to determine a site's potential for answering a research question
When a research question must be answered with a limited amount of time and money
When a researcher already know what to expect during excavations
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Making sure to recover all the artifacts
Complete and accurate record-keeping
Establishing an accurate grid system
Cleaning and preserving the artifacts
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It is the oldest formal specialty
It is essentially the popular activity of art collecting
It involves a specialized set of skills and techniques
It involves special problems of collection and analysis
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To reconstruct ancient events like the battle at Maiden Castle
To collect and display ancient artifacts and art objects
The reconstruction of past cultural systems
To study prehistoric rocks and fossils
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A grid system
Natural stratigraphy for the soil
Techniques of statistical sampling
Digging down in layers of only a few centimeters at a time
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Professional gatherings to exchange research results
Special instruments used to excavate small bones
Ancient trash piles
Fossilized artifacts
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Features
Hearths
Garbage
Ecofact
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Features
Hearths
Sites
Ecofact
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Reconstruction
Taphonomy
Analysis
Conservation
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The care of plant and animal resources
The artistic heritage of any society, including painting and sculpture,music and the performing arts
The long-standing traditions of a particular society
All the learned behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, values, and ideals that are characteristics of a particular society of population
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Coating it with latex
Dissolving it with chemicals
Removing it from its context to look at it without interference from misleading clues
Analyzing its shape and signs of wear and tear
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Horizontal provenience
Vertical provenience
Keeping the walls of the unit straight and perpendicular
All of the above
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Assimilation
Holistic interaction
Ethnography
Participant observation
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Prehistoric archaeology depends exclusively on the interpretation of excavated objects and their uses to develop theories about how ancient people lived
Artifacts uncovered during an excavation and the corresponding data collected are nonrenewable cultural resources
Excavation must be undertaken with great care, making sure as much data as possible is recorded about the site and recorded accurately. If data is recorded incorrectly or incompletely it is of little historical value
All of the above
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Locate graves
Determine if a potential site is a site and to decide exactly where to dig
Recover the artifacts from a site
Spread out the excavators so they do the least damage
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Fieldwork
Interviewing
Scientific observation
Participant observation
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Hypothesis
Observation
Experiment
Theory
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Fossils
Middens
Strata
Features
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Fossils
Artifacts
Material culture
Prehistory
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Grid system
Datum point
Stratigraphic analysis
Site
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Features
Sites
Fossils
Culture history
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Excavation
Sampling
Remote sensing
Conservation
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Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism
Humanistic
Empathetic
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A way of collecting facts
The methodology used in laboratory research
A method of inquiry
Only concerned with concrete things like gravity and chemicals
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The archaeologist is usually thought of as someone who finds and catalogs material objects such as coins, arrowheads, and potsherds
The end result of archaeological research is to interpret artifacts as material expressions of the ideas of a past culture and to try to reconstruct that culture to add to our understanding of human behavior.
The end result of archaeological research is to contribute to the reconstruction of past human civilizations
Non of the above is incorrect (all are correct)
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Archaeology destroys data as it is gathered; once a site is excavated it cannot be re-excavated
Federal legislation mandates abundant, accurate, and detailed field notes
Archaeology students generally learn field techniques from these notes
None of the above; it is not essential because archaeologists can always go back and reconstruct the excavation later
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Chronometric
Potassium-argon
Relative
Archaeological
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Immigrants who arrived in the last 500 years
Historical records of indigenous societies
Migration of the first humans on the continent
Physical characteristics of American Indian tribes
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Features
Hearths
Sites
Artifacts
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Shopping habbits
Economy
Subsistence pattern
Market system
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Whether the first populations were hunter-gatherers of farmers
When the population migrations actually took place
The particular subspecies (archaic or modern Homo sapiens)
The types of boats or canoes that would have been utilized
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Context
Formal analysis
Culture history
Typology
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