Author Question: Binford's ethnoarchaeological work with the Nunamiut Eskimo of Alaska demonstrated a. that it was ... (Read 35 times)

luvbio · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Binford's ethnoarchaeological work with the Nunamiut Eskimo of Alaska demonstrated

a. that it was safe for archaeologists to assume that a difference in artifacts reflects a difference in culture.
b. that different artifact assemblages could result from different activities conducted by the same culture.
c. the likelihood that different Mousterian tool assemblages were a result of different Neanderthal tribes.
d. that the same people leave the same kinds of tools at different locations across the landscape.
e. that Middle Paleolithic Europeans were better tool makers than Nunamiut Eskimo.

Question 2

Trying to move stones weighing several tons using only the tools and materials that the ancient Egyptians had available to them, with the goal of determining whether or not Egyptian technology was sufficiently sophisticated to produce monuments like the pyramids, is an example of

a. experimental archaeology.
b. ethnoarchaeology.
c. analogy.
d. uniformitarianism.
e. taphonomy