SESSION 1 EXAMINATIONS

JUNE 2021

Unit Code and Name: Digging up the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology

Weight: 40%

Date: Thursday 17th June 2021

Start time: 2 pm

Time Allowed: 2hrs (+30 minutes technical time allowance)

Total Number of Questions: FIFTY (50)

Instructions: Answer ALL FIFTY (50) questions in the following sections:

Section 1 – Quiz (40 marks): answer all FORTY (40) questions (multiple choice and short
answer questions). Each question has equal value (1 mark).
Section 2 – Artefact Description (20 marks): describe the TWO (2) artefacts pictured in this
exam paper (max. 300 words per description). Each question has equal value (10 marks).
Section 3 - Short questions (40 marks): provide a brief answer to EIGHT (8) questions
(maximum of 5 lines per answer). Each question has equal value (5 marks each).

• Work out how long you can spend on each question and do not exceed that time.
• Read the requirements carefully. Take a few moments to think what the requirements are asking and
how you are going to answer them.
• You should read through the paper and plan the order in which you will tackle the questions. Always
start with the one you feel most confident about and take time to choose the questions you will answer
later.
• The time for submission of answers to the examination paper will be strictly enforced.
• All answers to the examination paper must be submitted electronically using the Final Exam
Answer Booklet (Word format) that you have downloaded with this exam paper by the time
stated above by using the link on the iLearn unit page entitled AHIS1300 Final Exam Submission.
• Do not change the font or adjust margins and line spacing
• Answers to the examination questions must be written in the order in which the questions appear
in the examination paper.
• All answers should be contained in one answer file. Do not create a separate answer file for each
question.
• Please be sure to upload the correct file to Turnitin before the due time. Once you submit the file you
will not be able to upload a different file.
• Computer errors or malfunctions will not be accepted as a basis for lateness.
• Any student who does not submit answers to the final examination, as the case may be on time or at
all, will receive a zero mark for this assessment.
Section 1 – Quiz (60 marks)
Answer all FORTY (40) questions below (multiple choice and short answer questions).
Each question has equal value (1 mark)

1. Which one is not a recognised Archaeologist?

a) Mortimer Wheeler
b) Howard Carter
c) Kathleen Kenyon
d) David Livingston

2. What name was given to the famous hoax "discovered" in a pit in Sussex, England
between 1908-1912?
a) Otzi the Iceman
b) Piltdown Man
c) Tollund Man
d) Lindow Man
e) Red Lady of Paviland

3. By-products or waste material left by flintknapping is known as?

a) rubble
b) cortex
c) rubbish
d) midden
e) debitage

4. A mound of shells, bones, and debris found on the site of an ancient habitation is a ...
a) dig
b) cairn
c) codex
d) midden
e) dolmen

5. Name the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still survives.
6. The Bronze Age followed the Stone Age. What age followed the Bronze Age?

7. Which of these is not considered an archaeological record?

a) scrolls
b) artefacts
c) architecture
d) biofacts

8. Which of these is not an archaeological method?

a) excavation
b) remote sensing
c) predictive modelling
d) field survey

9. What are drones used for in archaeology?

a) analysis
b) excavation
c) survey
d) remote sensing

10. The aim of Enthoarchaeology is to?

a) link the past and present
b) show how to excavate grave goods correctly
c) obtain seeds and other organic materials from soil by using liquids
c) explain how tribes died out
d) verbally transmitted information about past events

11…40
Section 2 – Artefact description (20 marks)

41. Describe the artefact below (max. 300 words)

42. Describe the artefact below (max. 300 words)

Section 3 – Short questions (40 marks)
Provide brief answers to the EIGHT (8) questions below (maximum of 5 lines per answer).
Each question has equal value (5 marks each).

43. How do archaeologists find sites?

44. What is meant by the term "complex society"?

45. How has dendrochronology been used to calibrate radiocarbon dates?

46. Explain the phrase "The present is the key to the past."

47…50