Week 10-13 Quizzes

If I am a researcher who records how bones and carcasses decay when abandoned, then I am studying: experimental archaeology. taphonomy. lithics production. ceramic production.

taphonomy.

If you excavate a coin with the date 1895 stamped on it, then the context in which you found it dates to: 1894 1895. Any year prior to 1895. 1895 to the present day.

1895 to the present day

Carbon dating is a(n) ___________ dating technique. Absolute. Relative.

Absolute.

Which of the following techniques is used to study stone tools: Reproduction. Typology. Microwear. Refitting. All of these.

All of these.

A rock can be dated by which of the following methods: Dendrochronology. Argon-Argon. Carbon 14.

Argon-argon

Seriation is a dating method based on: Measuring the amount of water absorbed by obsidian. Artifact styles and technology that change over time. Taking a core from a living tree. Radioactive decay.

Artifact styles and technology that change over time.

In chipped stone tool production, soft hammers are made from: Steel. Stone. Bone.

Bone.

If you want to date a plant seed that you think is less than 30,000 years old, which of the following is the best method to use? Obsidian Hydration. Dendrochronology. Carbon 14. Seriation. Argon-Argon.

Carbon 14

The function of an ancient stone tool is always obvious. True False

False

Chipped stone tools are made primarily from: Fine-grained stones. Coarse-grained stones.

Fine-grained stones.

The following is an example of a _______ analogy: Until the 19th century the Jeran people of eastern Slovakia built grain storage structures that had stone pillars at the four corners in order to limit infiltration of mice. These buildings were typically rectangular with one entrance from the north side. In the same region, over 1000 years ago the cultures built square buildings on stone pillars that had doors on both the north and south sides. Due to the similarity in the these structures and their connection to the later cultures in the same region, we think the ancient structures functioned as grain storage facilities. Formal and relational relational formal

Formal and relational

Chipped stone tool production uses which of the following: Hard and soft hammers, and indirect percussion. Soft hammers. Hard hammers. Hard and Soft Hammers but not indirect percussion. Indirect percussion.

Hard and soft hammers, and indirect percussion.

A primary flake: Has no cortex. Has a dorsal surface completely covered in cortex. Has some cortex.

Has a dorsal surface completely covered in cortex.

Pressure flaking is used mainly in the __________ stage of stone tool production. Middle. Pressure flaking is not a technique for making stone tools. First. Last.

Last.

Which method can be used to date sediment, burnt ceramics or stones? Carbon 14. Obsidian Hydration. Argon. Luminescence. Dendrochronology.

Luminescence.

Ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology are examples of: High -level research. Middle -level research. Low -level research.

Middle -level research.

This type of dating method provides an "older than, younger than" date? Absolute. Relative.

Relative

"Battleship" curves are associated with which dating method? Luminescence. Carbon 14. Seriation. Dendrochronology. Obsidian Hydration. Luminescence. Argon.

Seriation.

When organisms die they decay and enter the archaeological record in various ways. The study of this process is known as: Decay studies. Taphonomy. Geonomy. Death studies.

Taphonomy.

Cryptocrystalline materials are ideal for making stone tools because: They are very heavy. They are extremely rare. The have a predictable fracture pattern.

The have a predictable fracture pattern.

Debitage is: The waste material from making stone tools. The raw material used for making stone tools. Material used to make axes. Material used as a hammer for making stone tools.

The waste material from making stone tools.

Why / would it be useful to heat stone tool raw material? To remove contaminants. To make them easier to work/flake. It is not useful to heat stone tool raw material. To make them difficult to flake.

To make them easier to work/flake.

A biface tool is worked on ___________. One side. Two sides.

Two sides.

Accelerator mass spectrometry requires _____________ samples to accurately date materials. Very large. Very small.

Very small

The law of superposition states that in an undisturbed stratigraphic sequence, a layer is ________than the layer beneath it. Younger than. Older than. The same age as.

Younger than

In archaeology, noting similarities between two entities and inferring from that similarity that an additional attribute of one (the ethnographic case) is also true of the other (the archaeological case) is known as: comparison. analogy. simile. contrast.

analogy.

According to the Kelly and Thomas reading, which method is most difficult to reconcile with the principle of uniformitarianism? experimental archaeology. analogy. taphonomy. ethnoarchaeology.

ethnoarchaeology.

Observing how living people behave and using that information to interpret the archaeological record is an example of: cultural-historical archaeology. taphonomy. experimental archaeology. ethnoarchaeology.

ethnoarchaeology.

Reconstructing an ancient type of kiln and trying to make it work is an example of taphonomy. ethnography. experimental archaeology.

experimental archaeology.

Based on what you learned in the reading for this week, is the analogy between ancestral (ancient) and modern Hopi kivas perfect (without difference or flaw)? no yes

no