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Chapter 10: Portals to the Past Quiz
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1.
Archaeologists typically rely upon ______________ to reconstruct the past.
material culture
fossil dinosaurs
almost exclusively written records
history
2.
One problem with relying solely on written records is that
writers often have an agenda
written records are always a better way of understanding the past than material culture
written records last longer than potsherds
3.
The application of scientific techniques to archaeological questions is called
history
humanities
archaeological science
material culture
4.
Using modern-day recreations to understand the past is called
cultural relativity
post-modern archaeology
post-processual archaeology
experimental archaeology
Chapter 9: How Did We Get Here?
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