Practice Exam 3

ANT 105

Spring 2010

 

This practice exam is optional, and does not need to be turned in for credit or bonus credit.  The answers will be posted online by Tuesday, April 27.

 

Please define two of the following four terms, and say how they are important to the study of anthropology:

 

1)      Profile

 

 

 

 

2)       Secondary State

 

 

 

 

 

3)      Relative dating

 

 

 

 

 

4)      Halafian

 

 

 

 

 

 

Write a paragraph on one of the following two topics:

 

5)       How can the study of archaeological cultures help in the study of modern cultures?  Why?  Give at least one example.

 

6)      Why are complex chiefdoms so unstable, and what qualities help a complex chiefdom become a state?