Author Question: Archaeologists are often involved with the general public because: a. Archaeology is not of ... (Read 341 times)

asan beg · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Archaeologists are often involved with the general public because:

a. Archaeology is not of tremendous public interest; the public does not want to know about the past.
b. Archaeology depends on public support for its livelihood, and so consequently it owes something back to the public.
c. Their work creates headlines and they love attention.
d. They are required to by law, otherwise they resent having to take their work to the public.
e. That is what they like people to think they do. Actually, archaeologists avoid the public because the public might loot their sites.

Question 2

Kathleen A. Deagan provides an example of the coming of age of Americanist archaeology because of all, except which of the following?:

a. She is actively involved in bringing archaeology to the public.
b. She is concerned with explaining social and cultural behaviors that she reconstructs from artifacts.
c. Her research has helped establish historical archaeology as an anthropologically relevant specialty of archaeology.
d. She has pushed the frontiers of the archaeological investigation of disenfranchised groups.
e. She protects archaeology from the public by limiting their access to archaeological investigations.