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ANTH 336  New World Prehistory
Dr. Darlene Applegate
Fall 2006
Answers to Midterm Exam 1 Practice Questions

1. All of the following are characteristics of most complex societies except

a. writing.
b. food collection.
c. force as a means of social control.
d. social stratification.
e. occupational specialization.
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2. Which of the following is evidence that supports a mid-East Asia (China) homeland for the first migrants to the New World?
a. the oldest prehistoric human skeletal remains
b. genetics
c. sinodonty
d. linguistics
e. both b and c are correct


3. Which of the following sites provides evidence for the short chronology (exclusively)?

a. Monte Verde
b. Pedra Furada
c. Meadowcroft
d. Topper
e. Mesa


4. According to archaeologists who have examined the earliest skeletal remains (especially skull characteristics) in the New World, humans first migrated from what part of the Old World?

a. western Europe.
b. eastern Europe.
c. Siberia.
d. Polynesia/South Pacific.
e. China.


5. Where was the Clovis spear point first discovered?

a. Blackwater Draw
b. Meadowcroft
c. Topper
d. Gault
e. Murray Springs


6. True or False:  The traditiona explanation for the peopling of the New World is that groups crossed from Asia across Beringia at the end of the last ice age.
 

7. True or False:  Examples of period numerical time units are 11,500 ± 250 BP and AD 200.
 

8. True or False:  Excavations at the Gault site revealed unexpected aspects of Clovis lifeways: settlement permenance, artistic expression, and wide range of foods.
 

9. True or False:  Archaeological time is divided into two broad periods, historic and proto-historic prehistoric.
 

10. True or False:  Although food production is more efficient in terms of land use than is food collection, food production is riskier and more labor intensive than food collection.
 

11. Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley argued that humans may have migrated from western Europe based on similarities between Clovis and Solutrean  tool technologies.
 

12. A specific type of item that can be dated with the radiocarbon method is  charcoal, wood, bone  .
 

13. The date of 12,000 BP   is used to divide the short and long chronology interpretations for when humans entered the world.

 

14. The idea that there were several migrations of early people into the New World is called the multiple wave hypothesis/theory.
 

15. Archaeological research at Monte Verde has been done by  Tom Dillehey .

 

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