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Question 1. What do archeologists do? Consider popular cultural representations of archeologists.
Question 2. What kinds of questions do archaeologists ask about the human past? What kinds of evidence do they look for in order to answer these questions?
Question 3. List the different human subsistence strategies presented in this chapter how have cultural anthropologists and archaeologists contributed to the identification of these strategies?
Question 4. Do you play any video games that depict ancient societies or even archaeology? Do you think the game developers have done a good job depicting the reality of archaeological research?
Question 5. Who owns the past? Examples
Question 6. Research some of the provincial repatriation laws that are used in Canada. What are some similarities and differences between the different laws? How do these laws compare with repatriation laws used in other countries?
Question 7. E xplain why the looting of archaeological sites is so problematic for archaeological attempts to reconstruct the human past
Question 8. Using case studies in which gender considerations inform archaeological work, describe feminist archaeology
Question 9. What sorts of collaborative approaches do archaeologists take in studying the past? Describe some methods that Dana Lepofsky has used to engage local communities with her field school
Question 10. In what ways can archaeologists strike a balance between ensuring the protection of archaeological sites and promoting cultural knowledge through tourism?
Question 11. What does it mean to speak of a "cosmopolitan" orientation in archaeology? Examples