Term
| The "Description d l'Egypte" was published in |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| similarities between two or more observations |
|
|
Term
Correct
The overarching construct or framework in which theory and methodology is designed is called a |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Inductive reasoning begins with |
|
Definition
| a general premise and seeks to develop a specific expaination. |
|
|
Term
| Anno Dommine expressed as A.D. means |
|
Definition
| "in the year of our Lord" |
|
|
Term
| Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztec empire in the |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Due to excavations of mounds in Virginia during the late 1700s, Thomas Jefferson is considered the father of American archaeology because he |
|
Definition
he gathered information systematically
used inductive reasoning
collected imperically |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the study of human behavior based on the material biproducts of a variety of activities in both time and in space |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| developed the concept of uniformitarianism. |
|
|
Term
| What did the discovery of the Rosetta stone do? |
|
Definition
| helped decipher egyptian hieroglyphics |
|
|
Term
| The small "chips and flakes" of stone resulting from the process of stone tool manufacture is called |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The "New Archaeology" developed in the 1960s, suggests that |
|
Definition
| theoretical approaches and science have value |
|
|
Term
| I have worked in Idaho for 10 years. Using XRF as a archaeometric technique, my primary research focus is on hunter-gatherer |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What was Franz Boas considered? |
|
Definition
| father of american anthropology |
|
|
Term
| which places were not part of the old world? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What did Ciriaco de pipizzicolli(1391-1455) do |
|
Definition
| established modern discipline of archeology |
|
|
Term
| What did Mathew Parker do in 1572? |
|
Definition
| formed society/college of antiquaries |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| what did Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868) do? |
|
Definition
| found ancient ax heads, and bones of mammals he wasnt believed. |
|
|
Term
| why didn't people believe Boucher de Perthes? |
|
Definition
| people thought the earth was no more than 6,000 years old |
|
|
Term
| What did James Ussher (1581-1656) believe |
|
Definition
| Creation began at sunset Saturday October 22 4004bc |
|
|
Term
| What did Hugh Falconer do? |
|
Definition
| Visted the site of Bocher's claim and confirmed that he was right |
|
|
Term
| What did Charles Lyell do? |
|
Definition
| wrote in 1863 The geological Evidence for the antiquity of man |
|
|
Term
| What did Charles Darwin do |
|
Definition
| wrote the origin of species |
|
|
Term
| what is classical archeology? |
|
Definition
| branch of classical archeology that studies the mediteranian aka greece, and rome |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| people who were facinated by ancient objects but didn't really do anything with them. |
|
|
Term
| Who was Giovanni Battista Belzoni(178-1823) |
|
Definition
| a early antiquarian and hired looter for the British consul he lifted the head and torso of Ramesses 2 and he was known for taking notes on what he saw |
|
|
Term
| who was Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae(1821-1885)? |
|
Definition
| first professional archeologist he excavated to answer questions |
|
|
Term
| Who was Christian Thomsen(1788-1865) |
|
Definition
| he devised the three ages, stone age, bronze age, and iron age |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| charcoal bones of animals and stone implements |
|
|
Term
| Who was Alfred Vincent Kidder(1885-1963)? |
|
Definition
| shifted archeology to anthropological purposes |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| sites physical structure produced by sediments |
|
|
Term
| What did Lewis R Bindford do? |
|
Definition
| argued that archeology should go beyond artifacts and study things like cultural evolution, ecology, and social orginization |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| archeology concerned with the methods used to reconstruct the past |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| study of all aspects of human kind |
|
|
Term
| what are the kinds of anthropology |
|
Definition
| biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, lingustic anthropology, and archeology |
|
|
Term
| biological anthropologists do what? |
|
Definition
| study the physical parts the skeltons and such |
|
|
Term
| cultural anthropology does what? |
|
Definition
| studies the culture of modern human groups |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| studies languages and the development |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the study of the past through recovery of material remains |
|
|
Term
| what is participant observation |
|
Definition
| questioning and observing people while living in their society |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| integrated systems of beliefs, traditions, customs, that govern or influence a persons behavior, culture is learned and shared by a group of people |
|
|
Term
| what is ideational perspective? |
|
Definition
| focuses on ideas, symbols, and mental structures as driving forces in shaping human behavior |
|
|
Term
| what is adaptive perspective? |
|
Definition
| research perspective that emphasis technology, ecology, demography, and economics as the definition of human behavior |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| cermony practiced by northwest coast native americans involving giving away or destroying property to acquire prestige |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| language developed among speakers of different languages for economic exchange |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| search for universals by establishing scientific method of inquiry |
|
|
Term
| what are the characteristics of scientific approach |
|
Definition
| empirical, and objective, systematic and explicit, science is logical, science is explanatory and predictive, science is self critical and based on testing, science is public |
|
|
Term
| who was ephraim squier(1821-1888) |
|
Definition
| civil engineer and politican interested in the moundbuilders |
|
|
Term
| who was edwin davis (1811-1888) |
|
Definition
| joined with Davis to study the mounds but he was a physician |
|
|
Term
| what is the scientific method and its six steps? |
|
Definition
| systematical approach to gaining knowledge, and the six steps are define problem, establish a hypothesis, determine emperical implications of hypothesis, collect data through observation or expermintation, test data with implications, reject, revise, or retest hypothesis |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| proposition proposed as explanation of phenomenom |
|
|
Term
| what is inductive reasoning? |
|
Definition
| working from a specific observation to a more general one |
|
|
Term
| what is deductive reasoning |
|
Definition
| reasoning from theory to account for specific observation or experimental result |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| degree in which experiment or observation can be reproduced |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an explination formed from observations and realationship between variables |
|
|
Term
| what is a low level theory |
|
Definition
| observations made that emerge from hands on archeological field and lab work |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| relevant observations made on objects that serve as basis for study and discussion |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| archeological site that has a rock overhang but not deep enough to be called a cave |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| plant or animal remains found on archeological site |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| nonportable evidence of technology, like hearths, architectual elements, artifact clusters, garbage pits and soil stains |
|
|
Term
| what is a midlevel theory |
|
Definition
| hypothesis that links archeological observations with the human behavior or natural processes that produced them |
|
|
Term
| what is a high level theory |
|
Definition
| theory that seeks to answer the why question |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| overarching framework, often unstated for understanding research problem |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a western philosophy that was interested in truth, science, rationality, science and technology would free people |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| rejects grand historical schemes in favor of humanistic approach that appreciates multiple voices in history it eschews science and argues against existance of objective truth |
|
|
Term
| what is processual pardigm |
|
Definition
| pardigm that explain social, economic, and cultural changes as primarily the result of adaption to material conditions external conditions have more priority than ideational factors |
|
|
Term
| what is general system theory |
|
Definition
| an effort to describe properties by which all systems opperate |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| humanistic approach and rejects scientific objectivity more concerned with interpreting the past |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| efforts to expose assumptions behind the alleged objective and systematic search for knowledge |
|
|
