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32 Cards in this Set
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How people provide for basic needs.
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subsistence
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How people organize themselves and their interactions with other societies
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social organization
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The knowledge or beliefs used
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ideological systems
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How people interact with and adapt to their environments
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technology
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what is the least difficult tool of interpretation for archaeologists use?
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Technology
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what is the third most difficult tool of interpretation for archaeologists use?
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Social Organization
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This type of analogy requires that you demonstrate the continuance/endurance of a majority of the social and cultural practices through time and in the same place.
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specific
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The study of environment and adaptation is more appropriately stated as the study of the interaction between ____________ and ____________?
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technology, subsistence
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Which component of the environment consists of everything that is biological on the planet?
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natural
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The social environment is separated into two categories. Of these two, the _________ social environment is frequently characterized _________?
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Conceptual … as defined by the presence of certain people
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Lithic technologies are more apt to be used in which industry?
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food procurement
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Human communities tend to maintain themselves ________ the carrying capacity
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below
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Everyone is descended from a common, revered ancestor
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ranked society
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Status in the society is mediated by variables of age, gender, and personal achievement.
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egalitarian
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People are no longer related
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stratified
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People have equal access to resources and decision-making power
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egalitarian
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The most basic in this type is the elite/commoner distinction
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stratified
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In doing settlement analysis, we can typically learn about __________________ from both households and settlements/communities?
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degree of sedentism
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Which unit of analysis in settlement analysis can also be used to describe another unit of analysis in some circumstances?
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activity area
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Which of the following would be an example of a symbolic feature?
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The Statue of Liberty
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A radiocarbon date of 4800 years plus or minus 80 years indicates that the date has a 95 percent chance of falling between:
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4960 and 4640 radiocarbon years
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Using the Cambridge half-life of 5730 years for 14C, how old is a charcoal sample that has 25 percent of its original radiocarbon remaining?
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11460 years
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Thee study of taphonomy refers to:
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How natural processes produce patterns in archaeological data
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A group of people with no fixed number of positions of status and where all have nearly equal access to critical resources is termed:
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a band
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analogies justified by similarities in the formal attributes of archaeological and ethnographic objects and features.
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Formal analogies
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analogies justified on the basis of close cultural continuity between the archaeological and ethnographic cases or similarity in general cultural form.
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relational analogies
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3 tools for paleoenvironmental reconstruction
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pollen cores, animal remains, technological reconstruction
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carrying capacity
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Number and density of people a particular region and environment with X number and quantities of resources can sustain
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what can be learned from activity areas?
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subsistence activities, seasonality, craft specialization
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what can be learned from households?
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degree of sedentism, family social structure, division of labor, religious beliefs/practices
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what can be learned from settlements/communities?
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degree of sedentism, socio-political organization, economic organization, religious beliefs/practices, social conflict
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what can be learned from regional settlement patterns?
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population movements, socio-political organization, economic organization, religious beliefs/practices, social conflict
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