Practice Midterm

ANT 207

You will receive 5 bonus points for attempting to complete this practice midterm, regardless of the correctness of your answers (although you must try!).  Please turn this in by Wednesday, March 3 for bonus points.  Answers will be posted on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 3.

Define three of the following six terms, and explain why it is important to archaeology:

1) Culture

2) Domestication

3) Middle-Range Theory

4) Tribe

5) Cognitive archaeology

6) Pengtoushan

Please write a paragraph answering one of the following two questions:

7) What is processualism? How did it change archaeology? Is it still in use? Why or why not?

8) What would a chiefdom look like archaeologically? Why are these archaeological markers effective?