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Chapter 10: Portals to the Past Quiz
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1.
Archaeologists typically rely upon ______________ to reconstruct the past.
almost exclusively written records
material culture
fossil dinosaurs
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
material culture
archaeological science
history
humanities
4.
Using modern-day recreations to understand the past is called
post-processual archaeology
post-modern archaeology
experimental archaeology
cultural relativity
Chapter 9: How Did We Get Here?
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