Question 1

Giovanni Battista Belzoni stood apart from other antiquarians of his time due to the fact that:

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A)   he took notes and made illustrations and observations of the places he visited.
B)   he recovered numerous statues, mummies and carvings.
C)   he removed another country's cultural heritage from its homeland.
D)   his methods were destructive enough to make archaeologists today cringe.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 2

"Stratigraphy" is:

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A)   the study of a site's artifact assemblage.
B)   the thorough and detailed documentation of archaeological excavations.
C)   the procedure by which archaeological sites are professionally mapped.
D)   a site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 3

Lewis Binford is responsible for establishing a concern for methods in reconstructing the past. This became known as

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A)   culture history.
B)   stratification.
C)   New Archaeology.
D)   archaeology.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 4

The "New Archaeology" of the 1960s:

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A)   insisted on the contribution of archaeology to general anthropological theory.
B)   advocated the importance of scientific methods.
C)   argued that archaeologists should always work from representative samples.
D)   All of the answers are correct.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 5

Stratigraphy is a term that applies to

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A)   decades of archaeological research.
B)   techniques used by indigenous African peoples to create a structure.
C)   a site's physical structure produced by deposition and sediments.
D)   manufacture of pottery and implements.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

The abbreviation "AD" referring to age in an archaeological or historic context means:

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A)   in the year of the lord.
B)   after death.
C)   approximate death.
D)   nothing; there is no literal translation.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 7

An "antiquarian" is someone who is interested in:

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A)   reconstructing the lifeways of commoners in classical ancient civilizations such as Greece and Rome.
B)   detailed documentation of the context in which prehistoric artifacts are found.
C)   ancient objects strictly for their artistic value, rather than for the information they provide about the people or culture that produced them.
D)   everything that artifacts can tell us about the past.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 8

Which of the following statements is true of the state of archaeology in the twenty-first century?

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A)   The "New Archaeology" of the 1960s has for the most part been uncritically accepted by nearly all archaeologists, and currently dominates archaeological thought.
B)   Archaeology is today very diverse, representing many different theoretical perspectives; there is no single, defining, dominating trend.
C)   Whatever public interest and involvement archaeology once experienced has dramatically diminished; archaeology as a discipline is at the risk of extinction.
D)   Archaeology today, as it was throughout the entire history of archaeology, is heavily dominated by white males, with virtually no involvement by woman and other minorities.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 9

Archbishop James Ussher (1581-1656)  was responsible for which of the following?

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A)   Establishing the antiquity of man by recognizing ancient handaxes associated with extinct mammal bones.
B)   Promoting the concept of organic evolution at a time when most scholars rejected evolutionary thought.
C)   Conducting intensive excavations aimed at resolving the question of human antiquity.
D)   Calculating the age of the earth based on biblical genealogy, and concluding that Creation occurred on October 22, 4004 BC.E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

New World archaeology is rarely if ever involved in ethical dilemmas, in large part because it deals with the material remains of past cultures that have no living descendants.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Jens Jacob Asmussen Worssae was considered to be:

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A)   an historian who studied Anglo-Saxon law and writings.
B)   an antiquarian who was interested in collecting objects rather than learning about them.
C)   the first professional archaeologist.
D)   the originator of the new archaeology movement of the 1960s.E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 12

Lewis R. Binford is a firm supporter of the concept that the goal of archaeology is to "dig up the past" and discover as much of the past as possible.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Alfred Kidder is important to archaeology because

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A)   he discounted aerial reconnaissance as a means to discover new ruins.
B)   he amassed a staff of untrained citizens to conduct archaeological investigations.
C)   he maintained that an archaeologist was a moldy variety of anthropologist.
D)   he found little support to suggest that Pecos Pueblo was viable for more than one century.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 14

Most archeologists are employed by federal agencies and private "cultural resource management" firms.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Gertrude Caton-Thompson made significant contributions to archaeology because:

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A)   she felt that archaeologists should focus their research on the artifacts found in tombs and temples, and spent her entire career devoted to their study.
B)   she felt that much could be learned by studying settlements and was the first archaeologist to excavate a village site in Egypt.
C)   she believed that archaeologists were responsible for protecting themselves in the field and slept with a revolver beside her pillow.
D)   None of the answers are correct.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 16

Which of the following dates is the youngest?

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A)   AD 1066
B)   1066 BC
C)   1066 BCE
D)   1066 BPE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 17

The contribution of women to the development of archaeology is best summed up by which statement?

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A)   Women contributed nothing; it wasn't until the 1960s during the fight for civil rights that any women were accepted into the archaeological community and allowed to conduct archaeological research.
B)   Women contributed very little; archaeological research was completely dominated by men throughout the development of archaeology, and is still heavily dominated by men today.
C)   Although women did contribute to the development of archaeology, their contributions are less well-known than those of men because they were excluded from traditional communication networks.
D)   Throughout the development of archaeology, the contributions of men and women have been roughly equal, and these contributions are equally as well known today; this is a testament to the early development of women's rights in America.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 18

As investigators came to recognize considerable continuities between the unknown prehistoric past and the Native American population of the historic period,

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A)   scholars saw that living Native Americans were relevant to the interpretation of archaeological remains.
B)   the differences between European and American archaeology disappeared.
C)   speculation arose that Native Americans were one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
D)   the study of American Indians was no longer an important domain in Western scholarship.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 19

The last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, Nabonidus, is frequently known as the "first archaeologist" because:

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A)   he was the first documented prehistoric individual to show an interest in the past.
B)   he tried to answer questions about the past by looking at the physical remains of the past.
C)   he employed modern archaeological field techniques in his excavations.
D)   he worked within an explicit theoretical paradigm.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 20

Today, historical archaeology is a means of discovering predictable relationships between human adaptive strategies, ideology, and patterned variability in the archaeological record.

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A) True 
 B)False

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Most archeologists are employed by federal agencies and private "cultural resource management" firms.

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"Stratigraphy" is:

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Lewis R. Binford is a firm supporter of the concept that the goal of archaeology is to "dig up the past" and discover as much of the past as possible.

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The "New Archaeology" of the 1960s:

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The abbreviation "AD" referring to age in an archaeological or historic context means:

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