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- How people provide for basic needs.
- subsistence
- How people organize themselves and their interactions with other societies
- social organization
- The knowledge or beliefs used
- ideological systems
- How people interact with and adapt to their environments
- technology
- what is the least difficult tool of interpretation for archaeologists use?
- Technology
- what is the third most difficult tool of interpretation for archaeologists use?
- Social Organization
- This type of analogy requires that you demonstrate the continuance/endurance of a majority of the social and cultural practices through time and in the same place.
- specific
- The study of environment and adaptation is more appropriately stated as the study of the interaction between ____________ and ____________?
- technology, subsistence
- Which component of the environment consists of everything that is biological on the planet?
- natural
- The social environment is separated into two categories. Of these two, the _________ social environment is frequently characterized _________?
- Conceptual ⬦ as defined by the presence of certain people
- Lithic technologies are more apt to be used in which industry?
- food procurement
- Human communities tend to maintain themselves ________ the carrying capacity
- below
- Everyone is descended from a common, revered ancestor
- ranked society
- Status in the society is mediated by variables of age, gender, and personal achievement.
- egalitarian
- People are no longer related
- stratified
- People have equal access to resources and decision-making power
- egalitarian
- The most basic in this type is the elite/commoner distinction
- stratified
- In doing settlement analysis, we can typically learn about __________________ from both households and settlements/communities?
- degree of sedentism
- Which unit of analysis in settlement analysis can also be used to describe another unit of analysis in some circumstances?
- activity area
- Which of the following would be an example of a symbolic feature?
- The Statue of Liberty
- A radiocarbon date of 4800 years plus or minus 80 years indicates that the date has a 95 percent chance of falling between:
- 4960 and 4640 radiocarbon years
- Using the Cambridge half-life of 5730 years for 14C, how old is a charcoal sample that has 25 percent of its original radiocarbon remaining?
- 11460 years
- Thee study of taphonomy refers to:
- How natural processes produce patterns in archaeological data
- A group of people with no fixed number of positions of status and where all have nearly equal access to critical resources is termed:
- a band
- analogies justified by similarities in the formal attributes of archaeological and ethnographic objects and features.
- Formal analogies
- analogies justified on the basis of close cultural continuity between the archaeological and ethnographic cases or similarity in general cultural form.
- relational analogies
- 3 tools for paleoenvironmental reconstruction
- pollen cores, animal remains, technological reconstruction
- carrying capacity
- Number and density of people a particular region and environment with X number and quantities of resources can sustain
- what can be learned from activity areas?
- subsistence activities, seasonality, craft specialization
- what can be learned from households?
- degree of sedentism, family social structure, division of labor, religious beliefs/practices
- what can be learned from settlements/communities?
- degree of sedentism, socio-political organization, economic organization, religious beliefs/practices, social conflict
- what can be learned from regional settlement patterns?
- population movements, socio-political organization, economic organization, religious beliefs/practices, social conflict