ARCH 2210 Theory and History

The above image shows an artist's rendering of 

a temple at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey.

The image shows

the Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilization

A Native American tent structure like the one in the image above is called a

tipi

Which of the following ancient cultures built extensive infrastructural projects, but almost no large monuments and palaces?

Harappan

Please order the following sites by age from the oldest to the most recent.

Oldest

Blombos Cave

Jericho

Mohenjo Daro

Cahokia

Most recent

The single upright megalith like the one in the image above is known as a

Correct answer:

menhir

The wall paintings above belong to the — site in today's —

Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Which of the ancient settlements had a wall around it?

Jericho

The houses in ancient Çatalhöyük were entered

from the roof.

The image above shows a reconstruction of ancient — dating back to
—

Jericho, 7000BCE

The inhabitants of Lepenski Vir on the river Danube constructed

trapezoidal huts based on a modular triangular geometry with a single interior hearth.

The image above shows a museum reconstruction of a — constructed by the — people.

longhouse, Iroquois

The Kostyonki site in Russia contains some of the oldest remnants of human inhabitation with structure consisting of

mammoth bones.

Which of the following types of structure is NOT found at Stonehenge?

corbel arch

A dolmen is a type of

megalithic structure.

The type of structure consisting of two upright posts and a horizontal beam at the top is known as

post and lintel.

The image above shows the plan of the — site in —

Poverty Point, Louisiana

The image above shows

the Nazca Lines in Peru

A kofun is an ancient artificial mound found in

Japan

Carnac

Cahokia

Lepenski Vir

Stonehenge

Gobelki Tepe

Carnac - alignment of menhirs

Cahokia - mounds

Lepenski Vir - trapezoidal plan huts

Stonehenge - trilithons

Gobelki Tepe - T-shaped columns

Please order the ancient North American sites listed below by age from the oldest to the most recent.

Watson Break, Louisiana

Great Serpent Mound, Ohio

Cahokia Mounds, Illinois

Please identify the structure in the image above.

Stonehenge, England

A very large usually rough stone used among First Societies as a monument or building block is called a

a megalith.

Large designs inscribed into the surface of the landscape, sometimes on an enormous scale, are called

geoglyphs.

The image above shows the reconstruction of

the Cahokia Mounds Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois.

The cave containing the famous drawings shown in the photo above is called

Correct answer:

Lascaux.

The natural pigment ranging from yellow to red and widely used among first societies across the world is called

ochre

In the past 100 years, the human population on Earth

quadrupled

The proposed geological epoch defined by the human action on the environment on Earth is called the

Anthroposcene

Our current geological epoch, which started with the end of the last ice age more than 11,000 years ago, is called the

Holocene

 In many parts of the world the arrival of humans appears to correlate with

the extinction of large mammals, such as the woolly mammoth.

Which of the following sites does NOT belong to the Indus Valley Civilization?

Jericho

Humans last reached

South America

The principal material that gave rise to the building type known as the longhouse is

timber

According to current scientific finds, our own species, Homo sapiens, first emerged around

315,000 years ago.

What was the predominant material used in the construction of cities in the ancient Indus Valley Civilziation?

brick waterproofed with bitumen (asphalt)

The image above shows

a plan of the Neolithic settlement at Çatalhöyük, Turkey.

The huts with elaborate trapezoidal plans and rectangular fireplaces, shown in the picture above, belong to

the archaeological site of Lepenski Vir, Serbia, 9,500-6,000 B.C.E.

Humans first emerged

in East Africa.