Anthropology 1

Lakukan tugas rumah & ujian kamu dengan baik sekarang menggunakan Quizwiz!

What are the main categories that Elman Service developed to describe human social evolution in 1962?

Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, and States

Which concept best represents the statement "one of the main causes of change in human culture and society has been the responses of those societies to the challenges and opportunities of their environments"?

Cultural ecology

Which of the following is NOT a sub-discipline of North American anthropology mentioned in the book?

Environmental anthropology

what is research "in which tasks or objects from the past are replicated and then compared with the archaeological remains?"

Experimental archaeology

Sub-disciplines of North American antrhopology

Linguistic anthropology, Biological anthropology, Cultural anthropology and Archaeology

Lewis Binford was a pioneering practitioner of which sort of archaeology?

New Archaeology and Processual archaeology

Which of the following were part of the "three age" system that developed in nineteenth century European archaeology?

Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age

Our book says that "many consider that archaeology begins when early hominins first began to create material culture (stone tools)." When was that?

About 2.5 million years ago

Which of the following are themes found in postprocessual archaeology?

1) A rejection of the idea that we can ever attain objective knowledge of the past, 2) The role of women, in the past and as archaeological practitioners, 3) Ethnicity, identity, and multivocality and 4)the questioning of the reliance on scientific methods such as the hypothetico-deductive method

Approximately how far back in time can radiocarbon dating produce a date from organic materials?

40,000 years

According to our book, when and where did archaeology originate?

500 years ago, in Europe


Set pelajaran terkait

PALM 205- Module 4 Exam (practice quizzes)

View Set

Chapter 11: Health Care of the Older Adult

View Set

Org Management chapter 9, Org Management Chapter 5&6, Chapter 7&8 org management

View Set

Chapter 40 Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

View Set

Skeletal System (25 major bones)

View Set

THINKING SKILLS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING

View Set