I Dig That!
This Greek word means "ancient"
What is Archaios?
This term in North American Archaeology means that events occur in different places at different times.
What is time transgressive?
This theory focused on differences in material culture by geographic location
What is the Culture Area Concept?
This framework to explain the relies on physical space.
This is the term for anything made, modified, or used by humans?
What is an artifact?
This goal in Americanist archaeology involves developing what in the absence of writing?
This term means "anything made, modified, or used by humans."
What is an artifact?
This North American archaeology theory focused on the presence or absence of cultural traits.
What is the Age Area Concept?
This framework relies on plants, animals, landforms, and water to explain the past.
What is Ecological?
What is the term for things made or modified by humans, but isn't a single object.
What is a feature?
This refers to the order of events or dates in history.
chronology
Most North American archaeologists agree that artifacts must be at least this many years old.
What is 100 years old?
This paradigm focused on the study of variants that became known as types or styles.
What is Culture History?
This framework for explaining archaeology focused on the reconstruction of past behaviors.
What is processual archaeology? (or the scientific approach?)
What is the term for a group of very large animals that became extinct around the end of the last ice age?
What are Megafauna?
This term refers to the time prior to the arrival of non-indigenous peoples in North America.
What is Pre-Contact?
This is a non-portable artifact, such as a hearth or trash deposit.
What is a feature?
This person used stratigraphy to answer chronological (time) questions.
Who is Franz Boas?
This person was the "champion" of a scientific approach to archaeology in the 1960s.
Who is Lewis Binford?
What is the term for the type of animal that has molars that create a grinding surface?
What are grazers?
This term in North American archaeology refers to the time period when written records were available.
What is historic or post-contact?
This term in North American archaeology refers to the collective evidence of materials.
What is material culture?
This student of Franz Boas established a ceramic sequence for the Valley of Mexico.
Who is Manuel Gamio?
This scientific method in archaeology relies on the Scientific Method
Processual Archaeology
What is the term for the earliest projectile point type associated with the archaeological period known as the Paleoindian Period?
What is Clovis?