2140 2006-7 Quizzes
Remember, each quiz is worth 5%, but only your best 4 of 6 quizzes count. I strongly recommend that you write each quiz if at all possible. (Do not just skip the first two with the intention of writing the last four!)
Quiz 6 - to be held in tutorial on Weds March 20 at the start of class. 20 minutes long. Question format: very short answer, matching, fill in the blank, and multiple choice.
This quiz will be based on the following readings only:
Jared Diamond: Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years? www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond/diamond_p1.html n.b. click on "the talk" at bottom and read the whole thing
“Insight:The World’s Most Endangered Sites” www.archaeology.org/9911/etc/insight.html
Hester Davis 1998. “Facing the Crisis.” Archaeology Magazine. www.archaeology.org/online/features/loot/index.html Read each section.
Quiz 5 - to be held in lecture on Tues March 6 at the start of class. 20 minutes long. Question format: very short answer, matching, fill in the blank, and multiple choice.
Questions will be drawn from Chapter 10 and Chapter 12.
These tips will help you study, but there may be questions from these chapters which are not listed here.
From Ch 10:
You should be able to correctly match these societies with their geographical region (e.g. West Africa, Mesopotamia/Middle East, Indus Valley/Pakistan/India, Europe): Vix, Aksum, Ur, Sumer, Anyang, Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, Jenne-jeno.
Know the general criteria for state societies (p 314-15)
Know the section on Mesopotamia
Know the section on The Indus State, particularly the key features which all the Indus cities had in common.
Know the sections on "The Royal Capital of Anyang" and "The Shang State Machine".
Know the sections on Aksum
Be able to match the type of ancient writing with the civilization (332-335) e.g. hieroglyphs-Egypt
From Ch 12:
Know which societies were in Mesoamerica and which were in South America
Know the place in time of these societies (from Figure on p 384): Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Aztec, Moche, Tiwanaku, Inca
Know the section on Early Mesoamerican States
Know the section on Empires of the New World
Quiz 4 - to be held in tutorial on Weds Jan 31 at the start of class. 25 minutes long. Question format: very short answer, matching, fill in the blank, etc.
Questions will be drawn from Chapter 7 and Chapter 8, other assigned readings for January, and January lectures and tutorials.
You may be asked to:
- circle the areas of the skeleton which vary between males and females
- list some ways of determining age at death from the skeleton
- briefly discuss the Kennewick Man case
- briefly discuss modern human variation
- briefly explain why 'race' is a cultural construct rather than a biological reality among human beings
- briefly explain the ethical concerns in studying human remains in archaeology (as opposed to forensic anthropology)
- in the diagram on p 244, place the following in their appropriate position: first stone toold, fire, blade technology, deliberate burial, definite structures, mobiliary art, cave art, grave goods, ceramic firing technology, grindstones - plant processing.... and Upper Palaeolithic, Middle Palaeolithic, Lower Palaeolithic, Acheulian, Oldowan.
- distinguish between diagrams of Acheulian, Oldowan, Levallois, and blade technology ( p 249)
- briefly discuss the significance of fire (p 254)
- briefly discuss the main differences between the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age and the Upper Palaeolithic/Late Stone Age (Table 8.1)
- briefly describe the evidence for these aspects of the Upper Palaeolithic: structures (p 266), deliberate burials (p268), imagery (p 270-71).
Quiz 3 - to be held in lecture on Tues Nov 28 at the start of class. 25 minutes long. Question format: very short answer, matching, fill in the blank, etc.
At least 80% of the quiz will be on the material below. (Note: The quiz may also draw upon material from earlier in the term.)
Sources: Required readings and all classes from the weeks of Oct 31, Nov 7, Nov 14, Nov 21.
Chapter 4: Early Hominids in Africa: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Homo habilis
Chapter 5: Later hominids: Homo erectus and Homo sapiens
Chapter 6: Modern Primates
Readings from Nature about Homo floresiensis.
Specifically:
Know Rice book's glossary definitions of: quadrupedalism, facultative bipedalism, habitual bipedalism, australopithecines, sexual dimorphism, AMH, multiregional model, Out of Africa-2/Recent African origin model, field studies, Old World monkeys, large apes, learning, language, communication.
What are the general traits which distinguish the hominid lineage from others? (p 113)
Be able to identify these features on a diagram of a skull: post-orbital constriction, zygomatic arch, sagittal crest, occipital, brow ridge, orbits.
Be able to list the four hypotheses for why bipedalism might have emerged (p 109).
Be able to identify skulls in diagrams of A. africanus, A. robustus (e.g. bottom of diagram on p 121), Homo erectus (p 142), and archaic Homo sapiens (p 150).
If given the diagrams on p 122 and 143 and 154, be able to identify the skeletons of: a gracile australopithecine, a robust australopithecine, Homo erectus, a Neanderthal, and Homo sapiens.
If given the list of traits for australopithecines (p 121-2), the list of traits for the genus Homo (p 133), and the list of traits for Neanderthals (p 153), be able to match the list to the correct group.
If given the diagram on p 174, be able to fill it in.
Know the material in the Chapter Summaries.
Quiz 2 - to be held in tutorial Weds Nov 1 at the start of class. 25 minutes long. Question format: very short answer, matching, fill in the blank, etc.
The quiz will cover most required readings and all classes from the weeks of October 10, 17, and 24. The specific readings covered are:
* Rice textbook chapters 2 and 3 (pp 37- up to 90)
* These sections from the Berkeley Evolution site: 2: The history of life: looking at the patterns, 4: Microevolution , 6: Macroevolution, and 7: The big issues
* The evolution of life on Earth, by Stephen Jay Gould. www.brembs.net/gould.html
At least 80% of the quiz will be on the specific material below.
Rice book's glossary definitions of: evolution, genotype, phenotype, chromosome, DNA, gene flow, genetic drift, natural selection, phyletic gradualism, punctuated equilibrium, species, chronospecies, common ancestry, hominoid, hominid, anatomically modern humans, placental mammal, therapsid, primate, terrestrial, arboreal, prosimian, anthropoid
* know the basics for the following primate traits in the Rice book pp 84-85: traits 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (amount of detail needed, for example, trait 4: vision: know that primates have binocular vision, and usually colour vision, and postorbital bars)
* Know the Kingdom, Phylum, Subphylum, Class, Order, Suborder, Superfamily, Family, Genus, and Species for modern human beings (Rice fig 3.11)
* Be able to fill in the following terms in their correct places on Fig 3.12 from the Rice book. (On the quiz, the terms would be provided to you in a list.) Primates, Prosimians, Lemurs, Lorises, Tarsiers, Anthropoids, Platyrrhines, Catarrhines, Cercopithecoids, Hominoids, Hominids, Pongids, Hylobatids, Gibbons, Orangs, Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Humans
* from the class handout called "What are the key dates for biological evolution?" (also in lecture notes online), know the approximate dates when: the first bacteria appeared; the first multicellular organisms appeared; the dinosaurs emerged and when they became extinct; the first modern birds appeared; primates appeared; monkeys and apes (anthropoids) appeared; hominids appeared.
Quiz 1 - to be held in lecture on Tuesday Oct 3 at the start of class. 25 minutes long. Question format: very short answer, matching, fill in the blank, etc.
Here's what to study. At least 60% of the quiz will be on the specific material below. There will be some additional material on the quiz that is not listed here, which will be from Ch1, Ch2, and from lecture.
Chapter 1:
- the four subfields of anthropology described on pp 2,3.
- definitions/descriptions for these terms: artifact, feature, ecofact, context, matrix, provenience, cultural transformation process, natural transformation process, research design, stratigraphy, palynologist, zooarchaeologist, archaeobotany, relative dating, chronometric dating
- the date ranges for which we can use the techniques of K-Ar, C14, and dendrochronology dating
Chapter 2:
- definitions of: evolution, uniformitarianism, catastrophism
- match these scientists with their major ideas: Mendel, Darwin, Linnaeus, Lamarck