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Midterm 1
Sites, Archaeologists and Dates
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Archaeology
Undergraduate 1
09/30/2012

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Term
Great Pyramids
Definition
2575 - 2465 BC
Kamal el-Mallakh
Egypt
Term
King Tut
Definition
1323 BC
Howard Carter/Lord Carnarvon
Egypt
Term
The Rosetta Stone
Definition
196 BC
Jean Francois Champollion
Egypt
Term
Mummification
Definition
1. Slit side of body and remove organs; put in canopic jars
2. Use sand to demoisturize body
3. Place herbs inside body for smell
4. Let sit in natron for months
5. Remove brain through nostrils or dissolve with acid
Term
Olduvai Gorge
Definition
1.7 million years ago
Louis and Mary Leakey
Tanzania
Term
Stone Age
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Definition
Pre 5000 BC
5000 BC - ~2500 BC
~2500 BC - ~1250 BC
~1250 BC - ~350 BC
Term
Pompeii
Definition
24 August, 79 AD
Karl Weber
Italy
Term
Nasca Lines
Definition
200 BC - 600 AD
Maria Reiche
Peru
Term
Chichen Itza
Definition
600 - 1000 AD
Edward Herbert Thompson
Mexico
Term
Xi'an
Definition
210 BCE
China
Term
Machu Picchu
Definition
1450 - 1532 AD
Peru
Hiram Bingham
Term
Catal Hoyuk
Definition
6250 - 5400 BC
Turkey
James Mellaart
Term
Jericho
Definition
7500 BC
Palestine
Kathleen Kenyon
Term
Kathleen Kenyon
Definition
1906 - 1978
British
Kenyon-Wheeler Method (digging in squares separated by balks)
Excavated Jericho
Term
Megiddo
Definition
3000 - 300 BC
Gottlieb Schumacher
Israel
Term
Kabri
Definition
2000 - 1550 BC
Kline, Aharon Kempinski
Israel
Term
Ur
Definition
5000 BC - ~0
Sir Leonard Woolley
Iraq
Term
Dead Sea Scrolls
Definition
250 BC - 135 AD
Bedouin people
Palestine
Term
Willard Libby
Definition
American
Carbon Dating with C14 in 1960
Term
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Definition
British Egyptologist
Creator of pottery seriation and stratigraphy in 19th and 20th century
Term
Donald Johanson and Lucy
Definition
American paleoanthropologist
Discovered Lucy in Ethiopia, lived 3.2 million years ago, "australopithecus"
Term
Bishop Ussher
Definition
Irishman who attempted to date the Bible in 17th century
Guessed that first day ever was 23 October 4004 BC
Term
Processual Method
Definition
1960s - Lewis Binford (American) - Archaeology as a science that asks "why"
Term
Post-Processual Method
Definition
1980s - Ian Hodder (British) - No one correct interpretation of given finds, ask "who"
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