1.  Lamps of the Arctic/Subarctic culture area were

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?

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.   American Southwest, not Great Plains
 

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.   Not bead work
 

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

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

12.   Turquoise is a diagnostic feature of the  American Southwest  culture area.
 

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

14.   A prehistoric cultural groups associated with the Arctic / Subarctic is Dorset, Thule or Eskimo  .