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The survey of the valley around the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán recorded: |
| | A) | 800 structures in the region. |
| | B) | 2900 structures in the region. |
| | C) | 3600 structures in the region. |
| | D) | more than 5000 structures in the region. |
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Why are statistics important to presentation and comparison of artifacts? |
| | A) | Statistics aids the visual display of data. |
| | B) | Statistics provide descriptive measures of average and range in a set of data to condense many numbers into few. |
| | C) | Statistics are also useful for making decisions about similarities and differences in numbers using probability. |
| | D) | All of the above. |
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Which of the following is true about conservation? |
| | A) | Active conservation is usually less expensive in the long run since artifacts only need to be treated once. |
| | B) | Active preservation involves allowing an object to decay slightly so that a treatment can be determined. |
| | C) | Passive treatments seek to improve the conditions under which the find is held in order to prevent further deterioration. |
| | D) | (a) and (b) above. |
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What happened to Lindow man?
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| | A) | He was bludgeoned with an axe |
| | B) | He was strangled. |
| | C) | He was stabbed in the throat. |
| | D) | All of the above. |
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A splitter is someone who: |
| | A) | creates lots of categories for classification. |
| | B) | creates a few categories for classification. |
| | C) | removes dirt that is embedded on artifacts and ecofacts. |
| | D) | takes the average date of an artifact, as opposed to providing a range of dates. |
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Intuitive classification: |
| | A) | is classification based upon what a "common person" would use as a means to categorized objects. |
| | B) | is classification based upon what a trained archaeologist would use as a means to categorized objects. |
| | C) | involves visual sorting of items based on prior knowledge. |
| | D) | involves measurement of some characteristics of the objects. |
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Objective classification: |
| | A) | is classification based upon what a "common person" would use as a means to categorized objects. |
| | B) | is classification based upon what a trained archaeologist would use as a means to categorized objects. |
| | C) | involves visual sorting of items based on prior knowledge. |
| | D) | involves measurement of some characteristics of the objects. |
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James Deetz studied: |
| | A) | the designs on gravestones in New England to understand changes in style over time. |
| | B) | the styles of hammers in Europe from the early 1700's to the present. |
| | C) | pottery styles from central Mexico. |
| | D) | horse saddles in the American West. |
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Which of the following would be considered archaeological data? |
| | A) | The thickness of pottery. |
| | B) | The size of Roman towns. |
| | C) | The color of Middle Paleolithic flint. |
| | D) | All of the above. |
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Which of the following is not a type of graph? |
| | A) | Stem and Leaf Plots |
| | B) | Histograms |
| | C) | Apple graph |
| | D) | Pie Charts |
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| | A) | stem and leaf plot. |
| | B) | histogram. |
| | C) | bar graph. |
| | D) | pie charts. |
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| | A) | stem and leaf plots. |
| | B) | histograms. |
| | C) | bar graphs. |
| | D) | pie chart2. |
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