Question 1

Cultural resource management (CRM)of archaeological sites and artifacts

Accepted Answer

A) has always been mandated by law in all countries of the world. 
B) is a way to protect the past. 
C) is the method used by countries to prevent archaeologists from other countries from excavating. 
D) has largely been discredited in recent years.

Question 2

Which late 19th-century German archaeologist and his colleagues are credited with transforming excavation from hunting for treasure to a careful scientific process of chronicling the past?

Accepted Answer

A) Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers 
B) Howard Carter 
C) Arthur Evans 
D) Alexander Cross

Question 3

Prehistory is the period before the

Accepted Answer

A) advent of written records. 
B) period of the dinosaurs. 
C) archaeological record. 
D) publication of On the Origin of Species.

Question 4

Copán, Guatemala, was a major Maya center during the

Accepted Answer

A) 15th century. 
B) 16th century. 
C) mid-first millennium A.D. 
D) American Revolution.

Question 5

Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the earliest human beings before written history?

Accepted Answer

A) prehistoric archaeology 
B) paleoanthropology 
C) classical archaeology 
D) Egyptology

Exam 1: Introducing Archaeology and Prehistory

Cultural resource management (CRM) of archaeological sites and artifacts

Which late 19th-century German archaeologist and his colleagues are credited with transforming excavation from hunting for treasure to a careful scientific process of chronicling the past?

Prehistory is the period before the

Copán, Guatemala, was a major Maya center during the

Which subdiscipline of archaeology is the study of the earliest human beings before written history?