Anthropology

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The earliest evidence of domesticated dogs comes from a site in Northern Israel ____ years ago.

15,000

The first clear indication of a changeover to food production took place in the Near East about

8,000 BC

Food production developed because of

All of the above climate change population pressure a shortage of desired products

Which is not put forth as a reason for broad spectrum collecting?

Average height of the population

Most archaeologists believe that the ___ was one of the earliest centers of plant and animal domestication.

Fertile Crescent

Among archaic peoples of Mesoamerica, _____ were located near seasonally abundant resources.

Macrobands

Which of the following archaeological finds can be used as evidence that Lucretia Perryman incorporated customary African practices in her midwifery practice?

NOT a porcelain spittoon

The shift to food production is called the

Neolithic Revolution

Settled life is called

Sedentarism

Which of the following is NOT one type of archaeological evidence?

Taphofacts

The Perryman family's interest in contemporary etiquette can be determined from which part of the archaeological record?

The dinner ware and tea sets

The rice banks of South Carolina are an example of ___________________.

a feature

Which of the following was NOT found in the excavation of the slave quarters at Monticello?

a medicine bottle

Which of the following were found in the Perryman assemblage and suggest that household members had consumption?

both revitalizing medicine bottles AND a porcelain spittoon.

Archaeologists discovered the logic of a leaning chimney by analyzing the scatter pattern of nails and _________________.

experimenting by building their own

In Ali Kosh in southwestern Iran after about 5500 B.C., ____ were two important innovations.

irrigation and the use of domesticated cattle

Which of the following likely played a part in Lucretia Perryman discontinuing her midwifery practice?

medical regulation

The cult of true womanhood was NOT associated with which of the following?

reinventing traditions of motherhood

In order to understand how a group of artifacts have come to be grouped in a particular location, archaeologists must understand __________________

taphonomy

Animals were first domesticated in

the Middle East

Which of the following was NOT found to be part of the diet of enslaved people on Middleburg Plantation in South Carolina?

veal

The presence of ________________ at the Uruk sites serves as evidence of trade between the settlements of Uruk.

clay seals

Unlike the Natufians, there was ____ evidence of social differences among the Archaic peoples of Mesoamerica.

no

The Wright and Johnson model stipulates that a state has at least three _______________________.

organizational strata

What suffrage movement was most relevant to the period in which Lucrecia Perryman lived?

the political movement for voter rights???

Thomas Jefferson's solution to the dilemma of keeping slaves was ______________________.

to raise their quality of life

Scientific mothering was an ideology that promoted

turning towards scientific knowledge to inform all aspects of child-rearing.

The rise of food production led to

All of the above Accelerated population growth, declining health, and elaboration of material possessions

The domestic sphere ______________.

only became spatially separate in the U.S. in the 16th century

Mobile, AL, is an interesting place to do research because it has been held by _____________________.

France, Britain, Spain, and the U.S.

A good example of a feature that gives insight into how the slaves lived on a southern plantation is ____________________.

an old floor of a slave's house, including signs of the foundation posts

After 1870, which of the following fundamentally changed medical practices generally, and midwifery specifically?

Germ Theory

Monticello, VA, Williamsburg, VA and Middleberg, SC all contain archaeological sites that have been integral to understanding ___________________.

slavery

An archaeologist compared which of the following findings to the pyramids of Egypt or South America?

the hand-made rice banks of SC

At present, archaeologists define the Neolithic in terms of the presence of

Domesticated plants and animals

Feature 1 and Feature 3 represent two different periods in Lucretia Perryman's life, reflecting the time before and after _____________.

the death of her husband

Tools found at Natufian sites suggest they harvested ____ intensively

wild grain

Archaeology of former slave households often tells us more than historical documents because ________.

planters only wrote about slaves in relationship to their interests, so information about the daily lives of slaves is not part of their record

Unlike their white counterparts in the late 19th century, Wilkie argues that African-American women were less critical of being cast as mothers because

they had been denied the choice of becoming mothers as slaves and were exercising their will in choosing to parent.

Post-processualism differs from processualism in that it deals with theorizing the operations of __________ and _________ among the inhabitants of a particular site.

power/ideology

Lucretia Perryman would have been predisposed towards understanding and embracing germ theory because three of her family members had died of ___________.

tuberculosis


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