Test Bank For Archaeology Essentials Theories Methods And Practice 3rd Edition by Colin Renfrew

ISBN-13: 978-0500291597, ISBN-10: 0500291594

Chapter 1 Questions

1. Who is considered to be the first person to have conducted a scientific excavation of an ancient site?
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. General Pitt-Rivers
4. Sir William Flinders Petrie
5. Willard Libby
6. Charles Darwin

2. Only just a century and a half ago, before the development of modern archaeology, most well-read people in the Western world thought the world had been created
3. in the year 1 AD
4. in the year 1000 AD
5. 54 billion years ago
6. 2 million years ago
7. in 4004 BC

3. The ecological approach to archaeology developed by Grahame Clark and his contemporaries could not only build up a picture of what prehistoric environments were like, but could also provide information about human activities such as
4. what language people spoke in the past
5. whypeople believed in certain gods
6. what style of clothing people wore
7. what people ate in the past
8. all of the above

4. Many 19th century scholars were obsessed with the Moundbuilders, a mythical civilization that supposedly built the mounds and earthworks located in what is now
5. the United States
6. Greece
7. Eastern Europe
8. China
9. South Africa

5. Who formed the first cabinets of curiosities?
6. a) Sigmund Freud
7. b) Renaissance princes
8. c) Sir John Soane
9. d) the Aztecs
10. e) none of the above

6. After 14 years of work, this scholar was able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822
7. Ephraim Squier
8. Gordon Childe
9. Jean-François Champollion
10. General Pitt-Rivers
11. J. Thomsen

7. “Survival of the fittest”, a key mechanism in Darwin’s theory of evolution, is also known as
8. natural selection
9. uniformitarianism
10. stratification
11. classification
12. ethnology