This final examination is due Dec 15, 1998 by 4:15 PM. You may, of course, turn the exam in earlier. Please put the exam in Dr. Zimmerman's mailbox in 114 Macbride Hall if you can't deliver it to him personally. You may also e-mail your final to larry-zimmerman@uiowa.edu. If you do, please send it as either a text file or as a Word attachment. If you send it this way, you will receive an acknowledgement that the file can be read. Do not delete your file until you receive that acknowledgement!
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1. Do believe that either the Mississippian tradition or some of the Southwestern cultures were mostly derived from Mesoamerican cultures? Why or why not? What evidence leads you to your conclusion?
2. Discuss both Cahokia and Chaco Canyon in terms of the idea of center and periphery. What archaeological evidences suggest that each area was a center? What were the periperhal areas like, and what sorts of contacts did they have with the centers?
3. What is the role of oral tradition in prehistoric archaeology? In historic archaeology? Can it really be useful to either? If so, in what ways? What kinds of allowances do archaelogists have to make when using oral tradition?
4. What are the social obligations of American archaeologists? Why should they be accountable to their "publics?" How is the reburial issue related to the idea of accountability?
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