Author Question: Classical archaeology is: a. The branch of archaeology that studies the classical civilizations ... (Read 143 times)

biggirl4568 · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Classical archaeology is:

a. The branch of archaeology that studies the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East.
b. Archaeology as it was practiced in classical times in places such as Greece and Rome and the Near East.
c. That period in the history of American archaeology in which antiquarianism dominated the goals of archaeology.
d. That period in the history of American archaeology in which Lewis Binford and his students dominated archaeological method and theory.
e. no longer practiced as a field in modern times.

Question 2

The year AD 1859 was an important year in the history of human thought because it was the year that:

a. Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species.
b. The scientific community refused to support the remote antiquity of humankind.
c. Ussher concluded that creation began at sunset on Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC.
d. de Perthes found ancient axe heads in the gravels of the Somme River.
e. Pizzicolli established the modern discipline of archaeology