Archeology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

3 Major periods of Pre-History - Ans 1) Lower Paleolithic 2)Upper Paleolithic 3) Neolithic Anthropology Definition - Ans The study of human culture Archeology Definition - Ans Studies past human cultures by evaluating what they leave behind Earliest civilization - Ans Tigris-Euphrates valley in Mesopotamia Fertile Crescent - Ans Area in Near East where early civilizations arose

HUM 345 SFSU Study Guide Questions with Answers Let's keep events in order. Around 3100 BC, - Answer-Ur, in Sumer The area where the oldest city took shape, inventing the division of labor, writing, an army, laws is - Answer-All the following are correct: "the land between the rivers" near modern Babylon Sumer Mesopotamia The oldest real city, c 3100 BC, where Abraham comes from, is - Answer-Ur 2560 BC - Answer-Old Kingdom pyramids, Giza All three "Abrahamic" religions cla...

ftm 400 test 1 why do we wear clothes - correct answer-protection (physical, spiritual) decoration modesty denote status why do we study fashion history - correct answer-inspiration cultural insights zeitgeist where can we get information about fashion history - correct answer-art archeology contemporary account- extant historically clothing has served to designate - correct answer-age gender differences rites of passage (marriage, graduation, christening, death/mourning) group mem...

MAT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATED 2024/2025 | GRADED A+. aberration - CORRECT ANSWERS something different from the usual (anomaly, irregularity, abnormality, deviation) abet - CORRECT ANSWERS to aid, act as accomplice (help, succor, assist) abject - CORRECT ANSWERS miserable, pititful (pathetic, lamentable, sorry) abridge - CORRECT ANSWERS to condense, shorten (abbreviate, cut, prune) abscond - CORRECT ANSWERS to depart secretly (flee, decamp, fly, bolt) abstemious - CORRECT AN...

ANTHRCUL EXAM #1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2023-24 four fields of anthropology - ANSWER-cultural, archeology, biology, linguistic ethnocentrism - ANSWER-everyone is formed in a community where we are assigned, therefore we judge other cultures using one's culture standards methodological cultural relativism - ANSWER-holds that the ethnographers must set aside their own cultural norms in order to understand another culture and explain its worldview familiarizing - ANSWER-making the stran...

ANP 201 Exam #1 Questions with complete solutions Anthropology The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another. Applied Anthropology Work outside of academic settings to apply the strategies and insights of anthropology directly to current world problems. Ethnocentrism The belief (human tendency) that one's own culture or way of life is normal, natural,...

Archeology is an example of a _______ UAS Application : Mapping and surveying UAS sensors are designed to capture ______ light in visual range. : Green, Blue, & Red (RGB) Flying an unregistered UAS can lead to civil and criminal penalties. : True _______ represents small GCS, easily transported and set-up quickly (one to two person lift). : Portable It is purely at the discretion of the pilot or owner/operator to define visual limits within three (3) miles : True What escalated the...

Aliens, Atlantis and Archeology Final Exam 2023 Graded A+ What is science? The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experiment What is pseudoscience? A claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not follow the scientific method The process of reaching a general conclusion from particular pieces of data Induction Which is characteristic of pseudoscientific claims? All answers are correct (Seeks to prove rather than test claims, Ig...

chapter 1 - "the truth is that cultural anthropology is the ____(1)______, interpretation, and _____(2)_____ of similarities and differences in human cultures." - (1)description (2)analysis what is definition of cultural anthropology? - the truth is that cultural anthropology is the description, interpretation, and analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures. what are the 4 subfield of anthropology? - archaeology cultural/social physical/biological linguistics what is ...

Cultural Anthropology 101 Culture - correct answer Is that complex whole which includes shared/accepted patterns of behavior, belief, symbols, knowledge, and system which is characterized of a group but reflected in individual culture interprets experience and transmitted from generations to generations. It binds people together and is in a state of slow but steady change Ethnocentrism - correct answer Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group. Indigenous - correct answer...