Deck 5: Native North Americans

Question 1

In the Archaic period of eastern North America, large-scale earthen construction has been found at

A) Cahokia.
B) Snaketown.
C) Poverty Point.
D) Moundville.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In prehistoric North America, which of the following was NOT a variety of nonresidential construction?

A) communal bath house
B) platform mound
C) kiva
D) effigy mound

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following could best be considered an achieved status?

A) age
B) sex
C) birth order
D) profession

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Reciprocity and redistribution are both modes of

A) ritual behavior.
B) production.
C) information gathering.
D) exchange.

Question 5

The _______ built the largest prehistoric canal irrigation system north of Mexico.

A) Anasazi
B) Mogollon
C) Hohokam
D) Mississippians

Question 6

Social status differentiation can be determined from burials through the analysis of all of the following except

A) grave offerings.
B) burial treatment and context (location of burials).
C) biochemical analysis of skeletal materials.
D) burial's orientation toward the east (rising sun)

Question 7

If an archaeologist wishes to study community plans, he/she should

A) excavate many small and deep test pits.
B) cross-section a site with two narrow test trenches.
C) excavate a broad horizontal area that exposes features.
D) limit the excavations to tombs and burials.

Question 8

One of the first North American archaeologists was

A) Robert Hall.
B) Hernando de Soto.
C) Thomas Jefferson.
D) A. E. Douglass.

Question 9

The principal form of residential architecture at the Draper site were

A) longhouses.
B) semisubterranean pithouses.
C) singular family rectangular structures.
D) multiroom pueblos.

Question 10

Objects placed in Mississippi burials suggest

A) that long-distance trade was rare, unlike in Hopewell.
B) a shortage of garbage disposal areas.
C) that warfare was the primary cause of death among Mississippians.
D) status differences in the society.

Question 11

The annual exchange of holiday presents between two friends is an example of

A) redistribution.
B) marketing.
C) potlatch.
D) reciprocity.

Question 12

Subterranean, circular ceremonial structures found at both ancient and contemporary Pueblo sites are called

A) pueblos.
B) charnel houses.
C) pit houses.
D) kivas.

Question 13

Petroglyphs are

A) Maya carved stones.
B) drawings carved on rocks.
C) oil-based paints used on bark paper.
D) code words known only to chieftains.

Question 14

Mound 72 at Cahokia

A) marked the north/south center axis of Cahokia and contained at least six separate burial episodes.
B) was a charnel house located in a high-status residential area.
C) was a linear "ridgetop marker" mound that marked the edge of the site.
D) is the number designation for Monk's Mound.

Question 15

At Moundville, ceremonial structures were primarily

A) stone-faced pyramid mounds.
B) flat-topped earthen mounds.
C) cut-stone circular structures.
D) pyramids made of stone blocks.

Question 16

Wet-site excavation techniques were employed at

A) Ozette.
B) Snaketown.
C) Chaco Canyon.
D) Poverty Point.

Question 17

Which of the following is an ascribed status?

A) Queen of England
B) President of the United States
C) archaeology professor
D) Prime Minister of Canada
E) starting quarterback in the Super Bowl

Question 18

An early domesticate at Poverty Point was/were

A) gourds.
B) maize.
C) millet.
D) acorns.

Question 19

The following would NOT be found in a Hopewell burial:

A) fluted points
B) copper celts and earspools
C) carved stone platform pipes
D) obsidian ceremonial blades

Question 20

The earliest permanent dwellings in the American Southwest were

A) pueblos.
B) rectangular brick dwellings.
C) pithouses.
D) teepees.

Question 21

Describe variations in ceremonial architecture in prehistoric North America. What interpretations about social organization might you draw?

Question 22

Compare dendrochronology to one other archaeological dating technique that is discussed in the text.

Question 23

Design an archaeological project that will collect data amenable to the study of community layout.

Question 24

Compare the economic practices of redistribution and reciprocity.

Question 25

By definition, redistribution includes

A) a central "nodal" figure or chief.
B) pastoral herders.
C) a market.
D) a state bureaucracy.

Question 26

The largest prehispanic structure north of Mexico, situated at Cahokia, is called

A) Monks Mound.
B) Mound 72.
C) the Great Kiva.
D) Pueblo Bonito.

Question 27

Which of the following is not matched appropriately?

A) pithouses-Snaketown
B) longhouses-the Draper site
C) pueblos-Chaco Canyon
D) kivas-Moundville

Question 28

How might the analysis of grave offerings be used to reveal social differentiation?

Question 29

Sea mammals were hunted by the inhabitants of which site?

A) the Draper site
B) Snaketown
C) Poverty Point
D) Ozette

Question 30

Maize was not a key food source at

A) Ozette.
B) Moundville.
C) Chaco Canyon.
D) Cahokia.

Question 31

When documentary records are available, does archaeology have relevance for interpreting the past?

Question 32

The Mound 72 excavations at Cahokia revealed

A) the burial of a monk from the early historic period.
B) the burial of an individual laid out on a litter of shell beads.
C) caches of Southern Cult objects.
D) the largest prehistoric structure north of Mexico.

Question 33

Discuss prehistoric subsistence change in eastern North America.

Question 34

The largest prehistoric structure built north of Mexico is located at

A) Snaketown.
B) Cahokia.
C) Moundville.
D) Etowah.
E) the Hopewell site.

Question 35

Large earthen mounds were not erected at

A) Moundville.
B) Cahokia.
C) Poverty Point.
D) the Draper site.
E) Hopewell.

Question 36

Early Hopewell platform pipes were made generally in the shape of a(n)

A) atlatl, or spearthrower.
B) bow.
C) arrow.
D) knife.