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ANTH 336  New World Prehistory
Dr. Darlene Applegate
Fall 2006
Review Material for Midterm Exam 2
The second exam covers Unit 2 lectures, readings in Scarre textbook, "The Eskimos and Their Ancestors"
chapter by Dean Snow, and "Eastern Woodlands" video. It will not include Unit 2 web notes.

Study Guide        Practice Questions


STUDY GUIDE

DISCLAIMER:  This study guide does not necessarily contain all information that may appear on the test.
 

GENERAL INFORMATION


ARCTIC/SUBARCTIC CULTURE AREA EASTERN WOODLANDS CULTURE AREA  
AMERICAN SOUTHWEST CULTURE AREA
GREAT PLAINS CULTURE AREA
FAR WEST CULTURE AREA  
ARTIFACT/SITE IDENTIFICATIONS

(What artifact/site is depicted? With what culture area is the artifact/site associated?)

Note: The exam images likley will not be these exact figures, but they will be similar.

 


PRACTICE QUESTIONS

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
 

1.  Lamps of the Arctic/Subarctic culture area were

a.    manufactured from animal bone.
b.    used for heating, cooking, and lighting.
c.    fueled with coal.
d.    a common grave good placed with the dead.
e.    painted with zoomorphic designs in red-black, buff-brown, or black-white.
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2.  Which of the following statements about the Eastern Woodlands mortuary complex is false?
a. burial rites were often performed in kivas, which were special mortuary structures that were burned after use.
b. projectile points, ceramic vessels, worked animal bone, and personal ornaments were often placed with the body.
c. some bodies were buried in earthen mounds.
d. burial chambers included log-lined tombs, stone box graves, and charnel houses.
e. cremations and bundle burials were practiced.


3.  One of the oldest cliff drive bison kill sites in the Great Plains is

a. Plainview, Texas.
b. Olsen-Chubbock, Colorado.
c. Medicine Wheel, Montana.
d. Cahokia, Illinois.
e. Danger Cave, Utah.


4. Sacred village bundles of the Great Plains contained all of the following items except

a.    maize.
b.    ochre and other pigments.
c.    calumets.
d.    copper cut-outs.
e.    bison parts.


5. What type of artifact is pictured below? What culture area is it associated with?

mica
a. mica cut out, American Southwest
b. copper cut out, Eastern Woodlands
c. smoking pipe, Eastern Woodlands
d. mica cut out, Eastern Woodlands
e. basket decoration, American Southwest


6. True or False:  The primary environmental challenge facing prehistoric people in the American Southwest was the dry, arid climate.
 

7. True or False:  Basketry was noted as a diagnostic feature of two culture areas, the Great Plains and the Far West.
 

8. True or False:  Plant processing tools used in the Far West include milling stones, bedrock mortars, and mortars-pestles.
 

9. True or False:  The Arctic/Subarctic culture area is characterized by lamps, kayaks, umiaks, and bead work.
 

10.  The artifact pictured below would most likely be found in the   ______________    culture area.

wheel

 

11.   Maize, beans, and squash were cultivated in both the Eastern Woodlands and the American Southwest.  However,  ____________  was a crop unique to the Eastern Woodlands and  ____________  was a crop unique to the American Southwest.
 

12.   Turquoise is a diagnostic feature of the  ____________  culture area.
 

13.  The Plateau, Northwest Coast, Great Basin and California comprise the  ___________________  culture area.
 

14.   A prehistoric cultural group associated with the Arctic / Subarctic is  _____________  .
 

Click here for answers to objective practice questions.
 

SHORT-ANSWER ESSAYS

1.    Compare and contrast the use of plants to manufacture baskets and other artifacts in the Far West and Southwest.

2.    Compare and contrast domesticated plant use in the Eastern Woodlands and American Southwest.

3.    Discuss the practice of earthwork construction in the Eastern Woodlands, including dates, types, functions, and sites.

4.    How were cultural developments similar across the five major culture areas of North America?

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