Review Quiz 1 A non portable artifact in the ground is a a Stratum b Provenience c Feature d Fossil c Feature This is a picture of a row of postmolds where wooden posts used to be before they rotted away 2 What is anthropology The study of a Cultures b Fossils c Rocks d Humans d Anthropology is the study of humans at all times in all places from a comparative and holistic perspective 3 What are the four major subfields of Anthropology a cultural biological linguistic archaeology b cultural geological paleontological archaeology c biological physical archaeology cultural d sociology geology geography archaeology a cultural biological linguistic archaeology 4 The Law of Superposition Steno s Law states that deeper strata are a More shallow b More recent c Older d Younger c When deposits are undisturbed deeper strata layers are older 5 A site is a A place where animal fossils are found b A place where human activity occurred c A place where archaeologists dig d All of the above b A site is a place where human activity occurred The place where you find animal fossils is a fossil locality Most sites have never been dug by an archaeologist so that is not a good definition 6 The idea that the rates and processes of change that we can observe today were the same in the past is called a Catastrophism b Provenience c Uniformitarianism d Stratigraphy c Uniformitarianism 7 Dirt that contains no cultural material is called a Sterile b Matrix c Stratum d Fossiliferous a Sterile So you might excavate until you reached sterile soil 8 An object made used or altered by humans is called a n a Thunderstone b Artifact c Fossil d Matrix b Artifact Here are students trying to refit 550 year old pottery back together to reconstruct vessels TRUE OR FALSE 9 Scientific creationism is scientific 10 A fossil locality is a place where fossils are found 11 Matrix is trash mixed with dirt 12 Anthropologists follow a professional code of ethics that is concerned in part with the welfare of the people they study 9 Scientific creationism is scientific False It does not propose and fairly test alternative hypotheses 10 A fossil locality is a place where fossils are found True 11 Matrix is trash mixed with dirt False Matrix is the dirt that holds and supports artifacts and features MIDDEN is trash mixed with dirt 12 Anthropologists follow a professional code of ethics that is concerned in part with the welfare of the people they study True 13 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace are famous for a Figuring out the Law of Superposition b Inheritance of acquired characteristics c Figuring out that rates and processes of change in the past were the same as can be observed today d The idea of Natural Selection as a mechanism for change evolution in organisms d Natural selection 14 Define archaeology The study of human behavior through material remains 15 Define hypothesis A tentative but testable explanation 16 What do we call a story that accounts for a culture s origin It often invokes supernatural happenings Creation myth 18 A reference point at a site or a fossil locality is known as a datum 19 The exact horizontal and vertical location of something is its provenience 24 What do we call a sideways view of strata profile 25 What do we call a bird s eye view of a level plan view 34 If you send an email to your professor or T A what should you write in the subject line of the email ANTH 101 OR write Human Evolution Emails with other headings will probably be deleted without reading Always expect an acknowledgment that your email was received For other online practice quizzes look under ASSIGNMENTS on your Blackboard web page
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