Which of the following is known to be true of Shoshone pottery?
a. It appears suddenly in many parts of the Desert West at about 700 BP and similar pottery is manufactured until about 150 BP.
b. The pottery was introduced by a migrating Shoshone population that replaced existing desert populations.
c. The shift to pottery manufacture by Shoshone people was a direct result of changing environmental conditions that made ceramic vessels more efficient.
d. It was made by the Shoshone people until about 1500.
e. As a time marker it tells us why the pottery was made.
Question 2
Which of the following is true of the space-time systematics of North American archaeology?
a. Space-time systematics is still the main focus of archaeological research, as basic spatial and temporal changes in material culture remain undocumented for much of North America.
b. Space-time systematics has been largely worked out, and no longer preoccupies archaeology as it did in the first half of the 20th century.
c. Space-time systematics is not very useful for North American archaeology, because material culture remained unchanged for long periods of time in many places.
d. While space-time systematics has dominated European archaeology for the past century, its utility for North American archaeology is just now being recognized.
e. Space-time systematics has not been largely worked out, so it preoccupies archaeology more than it did in the first half of the 20th century.