a spatial cluster of artifacts and ecofacts
Site
The illegal removal of artifacts
Looting
The father of American Anthropology
Franz Boas
T or F: Archaeological contexts change over time
True
The kind of survey that uses planes or drones
Aerial Remote Sensing
The oldest documented artifact type
Lithics
The potential for more than one valid interpretation
Equifinality
T or F: Archaeology developed out of Sociology
False
Diachronic analysis is
archaeologists study change over time
A midden is
Trash deposit
Non-scientific interpretations of archaeological data
Pseudoarchaeology
Name 3 goals of archaeology
Preserve cultural heritage; Humanize the Past; Dissemination; Apply to practical problems
The scholar recoginzed for Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
T or F: The contribution of feminism to archaeology is the study of women in the past
False
Name 3 probabilistic sampling strategies
Systemic, Simple random, stratified random, adaptive
The subfields of Anthropology are
Archaeology, Cultural, Biological, Linguistic
Who are stakeholders in archaeology projects
archaeologists, descendant communities, project personnel, museums, nations,
What is the link between evolution and archaeology?
unilineal social evolution
Highest employer of archaeologists
Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
The difference between Provenience and Provenance
Provenience - location where item is found
Provenance - origin where item is made
The steps of the scientific method are
Name a law that protects archaeological remains
NAGPRA, NHPA, Antiquities Act, UNIDROIT, CPAC
The Antiquarian tradition (17th C) made models of human societies that were
ethnocentric and inaccurate; based on relics without provenience
The nine steps of problem-oriented research
background review, sampling, permits and funding, build a team, camp logistics, data collection, data analysis, interpretations, dissemination
Associating spatial data such as maps and photographs to coordinate systems is called
georeferencing