Listed below are terms and ideas drawing from the lectures and readings from the first half of the class.  A selection of these will be on the midterm as identifications.  You will need to define the term and explain its use in archaeology.

The second section of the midterm will be a set of archaeological problems based on the dating and analysis techniques discussed in class and in the Adventures in Fugawiland assignments. You will provided with data and asked to reconstruct the social and cultural behaviors that produced them.

Prehistoric Archaeology Historical Archaeology Emic  Etic Semiotics Sign Text Context In Situ Artifact Ecofact Feature Contour Mapping Transect Survey Proton Magnetometer Ground Penetrating Radar Soil Resistivity Random Sample Stratified Random Sample Systematic Sample Site Grid Datum Point

Vertical Excavation Horizontal Excavation Stratigraphy Relative Date Absolute Date TPQ TAQ Bone Dating Piltdown Man Index Fossil  Seriation Morphological Type Temporal Type Regional Chronology Component Phase Dendrochronology Radiocarbon Dating Radiocarbon Years Calendar Years Association Correlation

Subsistence Pattern Seasonality Projectile Point Mano Habitat Zone Botanical Data Faunal Data Phytolith Coprolite NISP MNI Taphonomy  Ascribed Status Achieved Status Egalitarian Chiefdom  State Moundville Southern Cult Hohokam Egalitarian Ideology