Theory
Anthropology is a four-field discipline, name the four
What is social/cultural, biological, archaeology, and linguistics
The type of archeology that is concerned with understanding diet, subsistence, and human environment relations
What is paleoethnobotany
The broad terms for two types of dating archaeological materials (2 blank)
What is ______ and ______ dating
What is relative and absolute dating
The types of Macrobotanicals
What is seeds, wood, charcoal, textiles, plant impressions
Directed by William Rathje, studies the archaeology of the contemporary
What is Garbology
Is a body of theory that uses objective methods, rational logic, and observation to find a single, knowable truth
What is Processual Archaeology/Processualism
This is the study of human-animal relationships
What is Zooarchaeology
Name an example of a systematic survey
What is walking transects
The study of ancient diseases and injuries
What is pathology
Who is known as the father of American Archaeology?
What excavation is he known for and why is it significant?
Who is Thomas Jefferson, excavated the mounds at his home in Virginia- debunked the Moundbuilder Myth
The Father of Cultural Ecology
Who is Julian Steward
What are the names of the two broad survey methods? Provide an example of each.
What is Invasive and Non-invasive
Examples: Invasive - shovel test pits, trenches
Non-invasive - GPR LiDAR Aerials and Surface surveys
Begins with an idea and then cherry picks data to fit their theory
What is Pseudoarchaeology
They are known as the father of American Anthropology
Who is Franz Boas
The {blank} period, is a precursor to modern archaeology: when people were collecting objects to show them off.
What is Antiquarianism
The method developed by Wheeler and his student Kenyon, a method of excavating archaeological sites.
What is Wheeler-Kenyon Box grid
The three broad categories of material culture.
Provide an example of each
What is artifact, ecofact, manuport
The idea that the Earth formed quickly over a few thousand years and dates to 4004 BCE
What is Catastrophism
The period of time when people began organizing artifacts and creating types and chronologies
What is the Classificatory Period
The scientific study of human evolution and hominin ancestors.
What is Biological Anthropology
The type of dating that relies on calculating the position of earth's poles to match when a pot or hearth feature was burned
What is Archaeomagnetism
The three types of microbotanicals:
What is pollen, starch, and phytoliths
One of the principles in geology that supported Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea that cultures existed before writing systems
What is Uniformitarianism