What is the main field of study for which archaeology is a sub-field?
What is Anthropology
100
What is the name of the excavation site in Tongass Alaska also known as 49-PET-408?
What is On Your Knees Cave
100
The studies of site formation processes and middle-range research is part of what "type" of archaeology?
What is Processual Archaeology
100
What is the act of archaeological excavation considered, reclamation or re-use?
What is reclamation
100
What is the name of the test method that uses a pos-thole digger to take samples?
What is Auger Testing
200
Referring to two or more reference points in time, especially as they pertain to phenomena as they occur or change over a period of time; a chronological perspective. The term refers to actions or things, as in the study of artifacts in a region as they change across sequential periods?
What is Diachronic
200
Where is the site known as the "Shellmound" located?
What is Emeryville.
200
What is the term used for the events that occurred in such places as Pompeii, Ceren, and Sendai?
What is a catastrophic event.
200
What is the term used by archaeologists to describe materials that have been recycled before the artifact enters an archaeological context?
What is reuse?
200
According to Lawrence H. Keeley, what was the only evidence for man's presence on earth for more than half a million years?
What is Stone Tools
300
What is the term used by archaeologists to describe a fixed elevation & location from which everything is measured?
What is Datum
300
What is the name of the location occupied by Native Native Americans in 1969 in protest as part of the Native American Repatriation Movement?
What is Alcatraz
300
What is the term used for the non-cultural process in which its are preserved because of the location in which it was buried, such as a peat bog or silt?
What is Differential Preservation
300
Taking stone or brick from old structures to make new ones.
What is reclamation?
300
What ecofact was used to radiocarbon date both of the interior sites at Santa Cruz?
What is the California Mussel
400
What is the term for the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the same way in the past?
What is Uniformitarianism
400
What is the name of the site chosen for excavation in 1860 because of the stalagmite layer that sealed all underlying layers?
What is Brixham Cave
400
What is type of process describes the natural disturbance of animals such as prairie dogs?
What is Non-cultural process
400
Metals being melted down when the item gets worn, broken, or is no longer current or fashionable.
What is reuse?
400
According to "Site Excavation and Characterization" what makes the excavation/ destruction of a site justifiable?
What is "if the work is done responsibly and ethically"
500
What is the term used for research that is based on observation, experiment, and analogy?
What is Middle Range Research
500
What is the name of the naval air weapons station with the largest concentration of Native American hieroglyphs in North America?
What is China Lake.
500
What is the term used to describe the cultural process of activities such as looting, farming, and urban development?
What is Disturbance.
500
What is the term archaeologists use to describe the transition of cultural materials from the archaeological context back into the systemic context?
What is reclamation?
500
Who wrote “The Archaeological record is contemporary; it exists with me today, and any observation I make about it is a contemporary observation.”