1.

Which of these is not a

pseudoscience?
A. Astronomy
B. Astrology
C. Cryptozoology
D. Ancient Aliens
2. These are given as proof of the
existence of AtlanHs as a source of
knowledge
A. WriHng
B. Pyramids
C.  Both
D. None
3. Archaeological research focuses on
the study of
A. material culture.
B. psychotropic substances.
C. plant remains.
D. dinosaur bones.
4. Archaeologists refer to humanity’s
imprint as
A.  a mess.
B.  the archaeological record
C.  footprints.
D.  carefully recorded data.
5. Archaeological features are
A. groups of arHfacts.
B. easily moved from their physical
context.
C. rarely found.
D. non-portable ar:facts.
6. Which is an example of a structure?
A.  A fire pit
B.  A house
C.  A statue
D.  A car
7. What is a midden?
A. A glove
B. A way of keeping records in an
archaeological dig
C. A theory of archaeology
D. A trash heap
8. These are all important for the
context of a find:
A. Matrix
B. Provenience
C. AssociaHon
D. All of the above
9. What is the matrix?
A. The soil or dirt in which
something is found
B. A computer program
C. A scienHfic way of daHng things
D. The way an excavaHon is set up
10. Which of these is a natural formaHon
process?
A.  A fire started to open the fields for more
crops
B.  A volcanic erup:on
C.  A person digging into a site to bury
something
D.  A cache
11. Which of these would most likely
be well preserved in the
archaeological record under normal
condiHons?
A. Cloth
B. Bone
C.  A coin
D. A complete pot
12. This is one of the main goals of
archaeology
A. Reconstruct past life ways
B. Get the shiny stuff
C. Make money
D. Create theories about the past
13. A good research design
A. is pleasing in appearance
B. can be half-baked.
C.  includes a clear statement of the
problem or hypothesis(es) to be
tested.
D. will always includes sophisHcated
tesHng devices.
14. What two things do archaeologists use to
help translate the archaeological record?
A.  archaeological theory and archaeological
observa:ons
B.  archaeological observaHons and foreign
language dicHonaries
C.  microscopes and rulers
D.  archaeological observaHons and site maps
15. Which of these is a good quesHon from
which to design an archaeological project?
A.  What is the origin of farming?
B.  Why is there inequality?
C.  How did the change in climate affect the people
of lower Egypt?
D.  When did aliens come to Earth for the first Hme?
16. Order the different frameworks for
archaeological thought:
AnHquarianism
Culture History
Cultural Ecology
Processual
Post-Processual

17. The classical Greeks and Romans had
A.  a strong interest in the past and used wriFen
and oral sources of informa:on about it.
B.  a disregard for the past.
C.  an interest in the past based solely on the study
of material culture.
D.  conducted archaeological excavaHons on a
global scale.
18. Site thoroughly excavated by anHquarians?
A.  Stonehenge
B.  Rome
C.  Persepolis
D.  Pompeii
19. Conductor of the first scienHfic excavaHon?
A.  Cyriac of Ancona
B.  Squier and Davis
C.  Thomas Jefferson
D.  Alexander Hamilton
20. Conducted the first problem-oriented
archaeological research project in the Near East
A.  Heinrich Schliemann
B.  Thomas Jefferson
C.  Howard Carter
D.  Gertrude Bell
21. Introduced the idea of straHficaHon in
geology
A.  Charles Lyell
B.  Charles Darwin
C.  James HuFon
D.  Grahame Clark
22. What are the three ages in the Three Age
System?
A.  Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
B.  Upper Paleolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age
C.  Pre-Classic, Classic, Post- Classic
D.  Lower Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Bronze Age
23. The arrangement of arHfacts in chronological
or developmental sequence is called
A.  Taphonomy
B.  Typology
C.  Theory
D.  Data
24. Material culture is deposited in the
archaeological record through
A.  loss.
B.  discard.
C.  cultural processes.
D.  all of the these.

25. Which of the following is false?
A.  The archaeological record is made up of used
and made objects.
B.  The archaeological record shows evidence of
human modificaHon of the landscape.
C.  The archaeological record contains structures
and places where people performed acHviHes.
D.  The archaeological record contains sites
untouched by people.
26. Who is considered to be the father of
processual archaeology?
A.  Grahame Clark
B.  Howard Carter
C.  Lewis Binford
D.  Charles Lyell
27. True or False: there’s only one type of Post-
Processual Archaeology
False, there are many types of post-
processual archaeology
28. Which of the following is NOT an ecofact
A.  Pollen
B.  wood charcoal
C.  sediment
D.  stone tool

29. The way that anthropologists describe
specific human cultures. It is an in-depth study
of culture through contact with people in that
culture
A.  Paleoecology
B.  Archaeobotany
C.  Ethnography
D.  Archaeoastronomy

30. Carbon 14 can be used to date:
A.  Fossils
B.  Stone tools
C.  Bones altered by cooking
D.  A sword