Chapter 1 Student Quiz

Encountering the Past
. In the nineteenth century, Christian Thomsen organized museum collections in a chronology known as __________, consisting of the _____________ ages.

. Archaeology can be best described as:

. The story of global human prehistory is reconstructed in this book through the sciences of _____________ and ______________.

. The belief that the earth can best be understood as resulting from the slow action of known processes over a very long period of time is called

. John Frere's discovery of stone axes in a quarry in Hoxne, England, indicated the tool makers were very ancient. He based his argument on:

. Charles Darwin discovered that plants and animals evolved through a process known as _________, while early anthropologists believed cultures changed according to _______.

. _____________ study human skeletons in criminal investigations.

. ______________ is the study of human evolution through the analysis of fossils.

. Lewis Henry Morgan conceived of progress in human culture according to the stages of ________________________________, what is known as __________.

. The idea that cultures have many pathways of change over time is known as:

. Most Western thinkers in the seventeenth century erroneously believed the Earth and all life had been established by _____________ around ____________ years ago.

. A ______________ is a place where people lived or worked, and where the physical evidence of their existence can be recovered.

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The anthropological perspective can be best described as ______________ and ____________.

. Anthropologists who study humans by living with people and observing their behaviors are known as:

. Anthropologists who study the nearest living relatives of humans are known as:

. Anthropologists who study "other people's garbage" are known as:

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The belief that the appearance of the Earth can be best explained as a result of natural disasters is known as:

. The idea that processes such as weathering and erosion are responsible for the present condition of the earth is known as:

. The stone tools John Frere discovered in a quarry in Hoxne, England were found:

. Charles Lyell espoused ____________, arguing the Earth _____________.

. A modern, scientific view of the Earth and the human past is based on

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