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Written records document the historic past. So why do archaeologists do historical archaeology?
 
  a. Documentary sources can be selective and biased toward the interests of particular cultural, political, or ethnic groups.
  b. Documentary sources do not exist for most of the historic past.
  c. Archaeological excavations can demonstrate that historical records are wrong, and thus useless for inferring anything about the past.
  d. None of the above; if written records exist, archaeologists do not bother with historical archaeology.
  e. Most authors of historical literature considered the interests of other cultural, political, or ethnic groups very important.

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The study of human behavior through material remains, for which written history in some way affects its interpretation, is
 
  a. prehistorical archaeology.
  b. historical archaeology.
  c. processual archaeology.
  d. postprocessual archaeology.
  e. history


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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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