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50 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following was NOT a European contribution to the West Indies in the late 15th/early 16th century? |
potatoes |
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Which of the following Gulf Coast cultures may have had connections with the Southeastern United States? |
Huastecs |
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Which of the following sites was discovered during the course of a modern construction project and illustrates the complications that can arise when archaeological finds become politicized? |
Miami Circle |
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The Calusas of southern Florida developed chiefdoms despite their ____________________. |
failure to adopt agriculture and grow maize |
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All of the following are true of Troyville-Coles Creek Culture EXCEPT they __________. |
made a distinctive form of projectile point from local chert |
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Which of the following has been proposed as a feature that limited trade around the rim of the Gulf Coast? |
the existence of two major sea gaps and a desert gap |
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Which of the following societies was among the first in North America to adopt maize as a staple crop? |
Weeden Island |
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Which of the following is the most likely function of the wheels found by archaeologists in Veracruz, Mexico? |
toys |
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The first wave of people to colonize the Greater Antilles most likely migrated by boat from the __________________. |
Yucatan Peninsula |
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_____________ was the primary food source for the Native American tribes of the Great Plains for thousands of years. |
bison |
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Native Americas were able to adapt to and flourish in the Northwest Plateau region of the United States as a result of the presence of large game animals, edible roots, and ________________. |
migratory fish |
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Pithouses were developed and built by sedentary peoples living on the Plateau of the Northwest coast as a way to ________________. |
stay cool during the hot summer months and warm during the harsh winters |
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Which of the following tribes is known for their exploitation of multiple microenvironments in the Great Basin? |
Shoshone |
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Which of the following is the main reason why medicine wheels were constructed by Great Plains Indian cultures? |
The purpose of these features is still uncertain. |
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All of the following are true about the development of the mounted nomadic cultures of the Great Plains EXCEPT: |
they developed in the 1500s and flourished until the late 1900s |
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Which of the following resulted in the evolution of many short-lived cultures on the Great Plains, Great Basin, and interior Plateau areas? |
short- and long-term climatic cycling |
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Which of the following BEST describes the people of the Plains Woodland culture as they existed in the wooded valleys of the eastern Great Plains? |
farmers who brought cultivation with them from the Eastern Woodlands |
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What was the primary feature of Numic speaking peoples that allowed them to be more successful in the Great Basin than the Fremont culture? |
a hunter-gatherer adaptation that was better suited to the Great Basin around the time of the Medieval Maximum |
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Which of the following BEST describes the North American Great Plains region? |
a vast grassland with a few forests on a few mountains and along rivers |
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Which of the following best describes the language families found on the Northwest Coast? |
a number of very old language families in the region that suggest a long history of cultural divergence |
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An archaeological “horizon” is best defined as ________________. |
a brief but widespread archaeological phenomenon that serves as a convenient stratigraphic marker |
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Ozette, the most famous site along the northern coast, has an exceptionally well-preserved record of the Makah Indians who lived there because |
the site was buried during a mudslide |
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Classic features of historic Northwest Coast culture include totem poles, large dugout canoes, wooden boxes, elaborate masks decorated in a distinctive art style, and ________________. |
large cedar plank houses |
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Why was the last prehistoric man to survive in the United States simply called “Ishi”, which translates to man in the Yahi language? |
in his culture, people did not speak their own names and no one else was left to tell his name to others |
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All of the following are true of the Namu site EXCEPT? |
huge shell middens were used for burials of high-status individuals |
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Wooden racks found at wet sites along the Hoko River near the Oregon coast were used to ____________________. |
dry fish in the sun |
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Which of the following was the most likely driving factor behind the formation and maintenance of chiefdoms in the Chumash culture? |
organizational challenges related to the construction, maintenance, and use of large plank canoes |
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Which of the following BEST describes the most significant feature of Baja California? |
ancient adaptations and ways of life were preserved by the southern-most peoples of the peninsula |
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_______________ served as a type of currency among ancient and historic peoples of the West Coast. |
seashells |
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Which of the following was the most prominent technological feature of Arctic Stage 4, which occurred between 1200 (+/- 400) BCE - 600 (+/-500)CE? |
stone lamps |
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Which of the following represents a technological innovation that is not known to be part of the Dorset Culture? |
pottery |
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The small burins, side blades, microblades, and microcores of the Eskimo Small Tool Tradition were manufactured _____________________. |
to edge normal sized compound tools |
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Large, crescent shaped knives used both historically and in ancient times by peoples of the Arctic are called ______________. |
Ulus |
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Which of the following best describes the social organization of subarctic peoples? |
Small, thinly scattered, linked bands |
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_________culture replaced the Dorset culture and other cultures it encountered as it spread and represented the last major cultural expansion out of Alaska. |
Thule |
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Which of the following was the primary subsistence activity(ies) for Eastern Subarctic Algonquians? |
caribou hunting and fishing |
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Stage 1 development in the Arctic, which stretches from 15,000 – 5,000 BCE, can BEST be described as the stage _______________________. |
that provides the earliest indisputable archaeological evidence for people in the Arctic |
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After the adoption of the bow and arrow sometime after 600 CE, the Algonquians of the Eastern Subarctic expanded ___________________. |
south of the Great Lakes to the Eastern Woodlands |
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Who were the first outsiders to make contact with the Inuits of the eastern Arctic? |
Norse settlers who settled in Greenland and Newfoundland |
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Which of the following was the main effect of the Great Depression on the field of archaeology? |
a boom in field archaeology and the creation of massive new archaeological projects |
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Which of the following occurred during the 19th century in America and was a major factor in the establishment of professional archaeology? |
creation of the Smithsonian Institution and various other museums |
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Which of the following is the most likely location of Columbus's landing in 1492 C.E.? |
San Salvador in the Bahamas |
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Where did the epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans and Africans most likely originate? |
domesticated animals |
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Since 1970, all projects with federal funding must identify, avoid, or mitigate impacts on archaeological sites, which has resulted in 70% of new careers in archaeology being in the area of _________________. |
cultural resource management |
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Which of the following explorers landed on the Vera Cruz coast of Mexico in 1519 and led forces to conquer the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan in 1521? |
Hernan Cortes |
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According to the SAA Code of Ethics, professional archaeologists should be engaged in all of the following EXCEPT: |
providing reasonable appraisals for the sale of artifacts |
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After its long population decline beginning at the time of European contact, what was the approximate size of the Native American population in the United States at its lowest point (1890 CE)? (Note: graph in lesson 44 is not to scale - use the book for this question) |
230,000 |
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Which of the following is the most reasonable estimate of the number of Native Americans living north of Mexico at the time of first European contact? |
1.9 – 3.4 million |
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European families responded to high childhood mortality due to epidemic diseases by having more children; most American Indian communities responded to epidemics by __________________. |
adopting refugees and captives to maintain population size |
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Although ____________ culture spread rapidly through the Lesser Antilles around 500 BCE, the pottery-making technology associated with them did not reach Cuba until almost 1,000 years later. |
Saladoid |