I Fucking Hate Archeology.

Front 1

The emeryville shellmound showed that foragers can have _______________.

Back 1

The emeryville shellmound showed that foragers can have a substantial impact on the animal species they use.

Front 2

Chitin is not an example of ______ remains.

Back 2

Chitin is not an example of botanical remains.

Front 3

Palaeofeces is not an example of indirect evidence for _______.

Back 3

Palaeofeces is not an example of indirect evidence for subsistence.

Front 4

Investigating subsistence involves identifying ____ _____ _____.

Back 4

Investigating subsistence involves identifying diet, technology, and organization.

Front 5

The performance of formalized, repetitive acts that others identify as meaningful is called ____.

Back 5

The performance of formalized, repetitive acts that others identify as meaningful is called ritual.

Front 6

Polities with populations with up to tens of thousands of people with large permanent settlements and a centralized political structure are called _____.

Back 6

Polities with populations with up to tens of thousands of people with large permanent settlements and a centralized political structure are called chiefdoms.

Front 7

Band societies are characterized by all of the following:
_______
_______
_______
_______
_______

Back 7

Band societies are characterized by all of the following:
Seasonal mobility
informal leadership
small scale population
egalitarian social system
(not formal ranking)

Front 8

Polities with cities, some form of fomal record-keeping, a fulltime military and a system of taxation are called _______.

Back 8

Polities with cities some form of formal record-keeping, a fulltime military, and a system of taxation are called:
States!

Front 9

Change that occurs at the same general time across geographic space and can be seen int he various environments, languages, economics and cultures that exist in difference places at that time is called _____.

Back 9

Change that occurs at the same general time across geographic space and can be seen int he various environments, languages, economics and cultures that exist in difference places at that time is called synchronic

Front 10

_______ is the breaking up of a population into smaller segments that then disperse into different areas without replacing the existing population.

Back 10

Diaspora is the breaking up of a population into smaller segments that then disperse into different areas without replacing the existing population.

Front 11

The archaeological record at ____ ______ suggests that the people were likely involved in a long distance trading network with Olmec.

Back 11

The archaeological record at Puerto Escondito suggests that the people were likely involved in a long distance trading network with Olmec.

Front 12

Thinking up new ways of doing things using already established methods, systems of organization, or technologies is called _______.

Back 12

Thinking up new ways of doing things using already established methods, systems of organization, or technologies is called diffusion.

Front 13

Has the Kennewick Man controversy been resolved?

Back 13

no.

Front 14

Describe the various theories of the origin of states.

Back 14

Describe the various theories of the origin of states:

~Irrigation~the competition for a need to control water for irrigation of fields led to the need for complicated management and eventually the need for a state level sociopolitical organization to manage and protect water

~Warefare~ productive agricultural systems became targets for conquest, leading to the necessity to create military to defend and conquer leading to a state level organization

~multicasual~ state formation was the result of a number of factors, the need to control water, warfare and trade. Each state would have had its own developmental trajectory.

Front 15

____ refers to the actual people, who live together in a culture.

Back 15

society

Front 16

_________ is the system of roles and statuses that hold a society together.

Back 16

social structure.

Front 17

________ accomplish the work of a society through rules and procedures.

Back 17

social organization

Front 18

______ is the stud yof past ways of thought as inferred from material remains.

Back 18

cognitive archeology

Front 19

_____ is their assumptions and beliefs about how the word works.

Back 19

worldview

Front 20

______ are icons, writing, art and other expressions of meanings and ideas.

Back 20

symbols

Front 21

______ societies are societies in which all the people are of the same financial and power status.

Back 21

nonstratified societies

Front 22

_____societies, social roles are statuses are very diverse (wealthy, poor, powerful, non)

Back 22

stratified societies

Front 23

_______ is the study of social status via burial data.

Back 23

Mortuary analysis

Front 24

____ is a small scale, nonstratified society with hunting and gathering.

Back 24

bands

(organized through kinship, usually a mobile lifestyle)

Front 25

_____ have larger populations than bands, formal leaders (Chiefs), mixed economies, prominent settlements.

Back 25

tribes

(status plays a more substantial part)

Front 26

_____ are polities with populations of up to tends of thousands, based on agriculture, centralized political structure, stratified.

Back 26

Chiefdoms

Front 27

____ are political organizations more modern, based on intensive agriculture, complex societies, large population, monumental architecture.

Back 27

states

Front 28

___________ is the understanding of ones own universe

Back 28

cosmology

Front 29

________ is the info transmitted from generation to generation

(hint: it's not an STD)

Back 29

oral tradition

(but I bet Jenzen would love to show Paul an "oral tradition")

Front 30

_______ is the use of artistic images to represent information and aspects of belief systems

Back 30

iconography

Front 31

Representational art is primarily paintings and sculptors that represents some bullshit about culture

Back 31

fuck this.

Front 32

_______ is one method commonly employed to determine the ethnic identity of some archeological materials

Back 32

direct historical approach

Front 33

_______ change is change that occurs at the same general time across geographic space.

Back 33

synchronic change

Front 34

____ change is change that can be observed over time

Back 34

Dichronic change

Front 35

______ is the breaking up of a population into smaller segments that disperse into different areas without replacing the existing population.

Back 35

diaspora

Front 36

__________ is the process in which movement of technologies and shit were developed independently and moved through regions

Back 36

independent invention

Front 37

What is hte study of where the materials found in a site were obtained, how much of an effort was necessary to procure those resources and how that procurement affected settlment patterns?

Back 37

catchment analysis: What is hte study of where the materials found in a site were obtained, how much of an effort was necessary to procure those resources and how that procurement affected settlment patterns

Front 38

What's the word for the remains of animals found in an arch. site?

Back 38

faunal remains: the remains of animals found in an arch. site

Front 39

What's fission fusion pattern?

Back 39

splitting of a group into smaller groups, and then the regrouping

Front 40

horticulture is

Back 40

low intensity agreculture