Author Question: Low-level theories are: a. Hypotheses that link archaeological observations with the human ... (Read 113 times)

bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Low-level theories are:

a. Hypotheses that link archaeological observations with the human behavior or natural processes that produced them.
b. Theories that seek to answer large why questions.
c. The observations and interpretations that emerge from hands-on archaeological field and lab work.
d. Easily falsified.
e. The most difficult to test.

Question 2

The differences between low-, middle-, and high-level theories are based on:

a. Increasing degrees of complexity and sophistication from low, to middle, to high.
b. Their functions in the process of archaeological inquiry.
c. Their plausibility; low-level theories are more likely to be false than high-level theories.
d. The order in which they were generated; low-level theories are the first to be thought up, followed by middle-level, and lastly by high-level.
e. Their levels of difficulty.