Anthropolgy 101 UIC test 2

What is a tell?

A mound composed of mud bricks and refuse, accumulated as a result of human activity.

What is 'ain malllaho'

A natufian site in isreal

What does the term midden mean

An accumulated pile of trash and waste materials near a dwelling or in other areas of an archaeological site

What is poverty point?

An archaic period site with concentric earthen ridges and an advanced lapidary industry

The term Fertile Crescent refers to

An upland zone that runs from the levant to the Zagros Mountains.

The field of palynology involves

Ancient plant remains

Which of the following is NOT something closely associated with ancient Hohokam culture?

Black on white pottery

Which of the following is the largest prehistoric native American community north of mexico?

Cahokia

Which of the following is NOT true of the natufians?

Domesticated plants and animals were important in their diet

Native American of the eastern woodlands are known for con¬¬structing...

Earthen mounds

Hunger-gatherers practicing a collector strategy tend to

Establish summer and winter base camps surrounded by special purpose sites

What does the term reciprocity mean

Face-to-face exchanges between known partners, such as kin or trading partners

Who were the Hohokam?

Farmers of the sonorant desert

What typically follows a consequence of the adoption of agriculture

First domesticated plants were used by mobile hunter-gatherers

Which of the following sites has yielded some of the earliest evidence for domesticates in Mesoamerica

Guila naquitz cave.

Analysis of grave goods from cemeteries at Moundville suffuses this society was

Highly stratified with a small number of hereditary leaders.

For most of the human past, our species has obtained food through

Hunting and gathering

Archaeological evidence indicates that the species known as zea mays was domesticated

In Mesoamerica and later spread to north America and south America.

Why is the site of Abu Hureyra significant?

It is the site where the earliest domesticated plants and southwest asia have been found

In what way is maize nutritionally problematic

It lacks certain amino acids

Which of the following is NOT true about the Hopewell interaction sphere?

It was a culture-single group of people

Archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon uncovered a massive tower, wall, and ditch dating to the Neolithic period at what site?

Jericho

The anasazi built below-ground ceremonial chambers called

Kivas

The population pressure hypothesis on the origins of agriculture is most closely associated with

Lewis Binford

Why was the discovery of Kennewick man controversial

Local tribes wanted the remains to be rebuffed, not studied

The archaic period in north America is equivalent of which of the following old world periods?

Mesolithic

The time period between the end of the Pleistocene and the introduction of farming in Europe is called the . period.

Mesolithic

Vedbaek and Vaenget Nord are examples of what type of sites?

Mesolithic

What did archaeologists find at the black earth site at carrier mills?

Middens, a cemetery, and variety of wild resources.

If a plant species is domesticated, it

Must depend on people for survival and reproduction

Catalhoyuk is most closely associated with long-distance trade in

Obsidian

Which of the following came first in southwest asia?

Permanent villages

Which of the following is most closely associated with early Neolithic period ritual in southwest asia?

Plastered skulls

Which of the following provides an example of great house architecture?

Pueblo bonito

Which of the following is best known for trade items bearing such motifs as the eye-in-hand, sunburst, weeping eye, skull-and-bones, and trophy heads?

Souther Cult

What is true of the chaco canyon anasazi?

They built an extensive road system.

According to Jared Diamond, why were the people of Papua new guinea at a technological disadvantage?

They did not have access to large animals suitable for domestication

Which of the following is NOT true of post glacial foragers?

They typically hunted mammoth and mastodon

If archaeologists encounter a burial of a young child with lavish goods, they would most likely interpret this as evidence for

ascribed status

What was the prominent ritual symbol at Catalhoyuk?

bulls

"poverty point objects" are now thought to be closely associated with what activity

cooking

How were ancient societies of the American southwest different from the easter woodland societies

it was more difficult to produce agricultural surpluses in the southwest.

Monks mound is what kind of mound?

platform mound

What typically follows a consequence of the adoption of agriculture

population growth

the stem that holds seeds to the stalk in wheat and other plants is called the

rachis

What was the earliest domesticated plant in Mesoamerica?

squash

the wild ancestor of maize is a plant called

teosinte

The "three sisters" are considered to be complementary because

they provided a balanced diet

What animal has not been tamed and farmed?

zebras