Must use one citation from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iaPAW3ng2t-5YAtry…
For full credit, you must use information from the class text reading and the outside sources to provide detail in your essays. You will need to show an understanding of world prehistory as well as critical thinking; your essays should reflect that you know the materials we have covered this term. Be sure to use specific examples from your readings, films, lectures, and web links from this course, and you must use parenthetical in-text citations and provide a bibliography. BUT, do not use extensive direct quotes – answers should be written in your own words with use of brief (less than one sentence) direct quotes only when absolutely necessary. Your short answer should be about 0.5 page in length, choose TWO questions to write, each question write 0.5-1 single space essay. Total 1 to 1.5 single space essay.
SHORT ANSWER CHOICES (choose two of three; 15 pts; each question write approximately 1/2 single space page):
- You have been asked to conduct an excavation in a tell site located in Iraq. You have learned that the tell mound is roughly 30 m high and 400 meters across. Preliminary testing suggests that it has occupations going back to approximately 2000 BC. In preparation for this project you must set up a research plan and pose some questions that you hope to answer based on excavations in this large site. Briefly, describe what the site would be like and what archaeological questions you would most likely be able to address given the information about the site’s size and location. Provide at least two examples of other sites similar to this one and discuss what kinds of evidence they have provided.
- Briefly discuss how the site of Çatalhöyük differs from, and is similar to, the site of an early city in China or in India/South Asia approximately 4000-5000 years ago. How do the time frames compare? Are the two sites equally representative of early settlements of the Old World? What similarities or differences are apparent in terms of social, economic, and political factors?
- Briefly summarize the use of writing in early civilizations, and in particular for the emerging Mayan system. What kind of writing was developed there, where do we find examples of it, what was it used for, and in what ways is it archaeologically recognizable? How are we able to translate the texts today?
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