ANTH 202: Exam 3 Most Missed Q's

The ___ are an egalitarian, hunter-gatherer society in the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa.

!Kung San

Although individual sites were protected through specific pieces of legislation or by the actions of concerned citizens, the first legislation to protect all sites on public lands was the ___

1906 Antiquities Act

More ancient symbolic systems must be studied in ways that made use of uniformitarian elements of ___, though these remain to be demonstrated.

A and B (human neurology and symbolic universals)

Which of the following is NOT a symbol?

A cave painting of a deer

If an archaeological site is considered significant under the National Historic Preservation Act, then it is:

Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places

The primary method for reconstructing male and female activities from the archaeological record comes from:

Ethnographic analogy

What was the impetus for constructing a stockade at Camp Ford?

Fear of POWs and slaves uniting in rebellion

Evidence of the first domestication in the world occurs in ____

Fertile Crescent

Recent finding indicate that ___ were the first plant species domesticated, ca. 11,400 years ago.

Figs

___ is the position held by Franz Boas, which maintained that each culture is the product of its own unique sequence of developments and in which chance plays a major role in bringing about change.

Historical Particularism

Which is NOT a characteristic that differentiates historical archaeology from prehistoric archaeology.

Historical archaeology is the only field that uses ethnographic analogies.

___ is cultivation in which only hands are used and in which plots of lands are used for a few years and then allowed to lie fallow.

Horticulture

Which of the following is NOT required under NAGPRA for institutions receiving federal funding?

Institutions must reimburse the tribe affiliated with burials/grave goods possessed by the institution

Some 400 'prehistoric' sites were found in and near Lake Koocanusa and numerous were tested to be determined...those that were contributory exhibited integrity in the for of___

Intact cooking features

The ___ are among the Plateau Tribes that share widespread conviction to maintain their cultureal identity, as is the case everywhere in North America, although working relationships with archaeologists varies considerably from tribe to tribe.

Kootenai

___ is the name of the cultural tradition that was widespread across much of the eastern US form AD 800-1500 engaged in intensive village0based maize horticulture, and constructed earthen platform mounds.

Mississippian

The Battle of Little Bighorn tok place near the Little Bighorn River in ____.

Montana

Which of the following archaeological cultures is/are considered/argued to be representative of chiefdom?

Moundville

Previous historical and archaeological studies made it clear that the proposed Applewhite reservoir area was likely to contain significant historic properties that were eligible for inclusion on the ___ or as State Archeological Landmarks.

NRHP

NAGPRA refers to:

Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act

___ is the period during which people began using ground stone tools, manufacturing ceramics, relying on domesticated plants and animals.

Neolithic

Which of the following does the 2010 NAGPRA Amendment: Disposition of Culturally Unidentified Remains NOT do?

Reinter (i.e. rebury) the remains without consulting Native American groups

___ is a society's mechanism for relating supernatural phenomena to the everyday world...

Religion

____ is a major goal of critical theory.

Social change

The name of the paradigm that holds that human culture is the expression of unconscious modes of though and reasoning, notably binary opposition is:

Structuralism

The U.S. President was given authority to create national monuments under which of the following?

The Antiquities Act

One effect of the 19th century's comparative method was:

The domination of primitive peoples by Europeans was legitimized because it was seen as the natural order of things

The City of San Antonio abandoned the Applewhite Reservoir project, based on ___ ...

Two public referenda

What is one of the roles ideology in state formation?

Used to rationalize exploitive relations b/w classes or social groups

The Buckeye Knoll site, located in/near ____ contained a(n) _____ that were interpreted as a ceremonial item characteristic of a high status individual.

Victoria, Texas; projectile points

The ___ was proposed by Robert Carneiro...

Warfare and circumspection hypothesis

The earliest exploration in historical archaeology were conducted to:

understand more about the investigators' own past