| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | None | Mode | Mean | |
| 16. Archeology attempts to discover and explains patterns or regularities in the material evidences of past human activity. | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1.27 | ||||
| 4. Archaeology is the study of how human beings lived in the past. | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.33 | |||
| 15. Archaeology is a science. | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1.40 | ||||
| 3. An important goal of archeology is the reconstruction of economic, social and political organization and systems of beliefs and values. | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1.47 | |||
| 18. Archaeology is the recovery, analysis and interpretation of the material remains of the human past | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1.47 | |||
| 21. Archaeology is anthropology. | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1.47 | |||
| 2. Archaeology is a humanity. | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 and 2 | 1.60 | |||
| 34. Archeology is the study how environmental circumstances constrained and influenced past human culture. | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1.67 | ||||
| 35. Archaeology is the study of the functional elements and their interrelationships that created past human cultures. | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1.67 | |||
| 36. Archaeological study involves the discovery of pattern from the analysis of material remains that are evidence of underlying economic interrelationships between past peoples and their environment. | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1.67 | |||
| 5. An important goal of archeology is reconstruction of prehistory. | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.80 | ||
| 14. Archaeology is the study of how human beings lived in the prehistoric past. | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.80 | ||
| 25. Archeological interpretations must be judged by their concordance with reality of the archeological record. | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.87 | ||
| 31. Archaeology is the science of garbage. | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1.93 | |||
| 1. Archaeology is a social science | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2.00 | ||
| 6. An important goal of archeology is investigation of the role of culture as an adaptive system through time. | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2.00 | ||
| 12. An important goal of archeology is delineation of the geographic extend of a prehistoric cultural group. | 3 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2.00 | |||
| 32. Archaeology is the general science of material culture. | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.00 | |
| 44. Archaeology is what archaeologists do | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.00 | |
| 9. Archaeology is a mix of theory and method. | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.13 | |
| 26. Archaeology is the analysis of past human behavior. | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2.13 | ||
| 40. Archaeology is the study of formation processes of the archeological record and the reconstruction of the cultural past through behavioral inferences. | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2.13 | |||
| 54. Archaeology is mainly a set of techniques that are applied with a mehtory and theroy framework supplied by related disciplies sucha as anthropology and ecology | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.21 | ||
| 33. Archaeology is the delineation and explanation of cross-cultural regularities over time. | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2.25 | ||
| 29. Archaeology is the study of the relationship between human behavior and material culture in all times and places. | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 and 2 | 2.27 | |
| 11. An important goal of archeology is definition of the economic basis of a society/culture. | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2.33 | ||
| 27. Archaeology is a technique for studying the past within a broader discipline of prehistory. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1, 2 and 3 | 2.36 | ||
| 19. Archaeology is the study of material objects in ongoing cultural systems | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2.40 | |
| 17. Archeology is the study of material culture in all times and places. | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2.56 | ||
| 42. Archaeology's ultimate goal is to extend the disciplines of anthropology and history into the anchient past | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2.92 |
| 13. An important goal of archeology is delineation of the geographic extent of modern ethnic communities. | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2.93 | |
| 7. Archaeology is primarily methodological. | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3.07 | ||
| 30. Archaeology is the science of progress. | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3.13 | ||
| 39. Archeological analysis is so embedded in value systems that there can be no objective perspective. | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1, 3 and 4 | 3.13 | ||
| 8. Archaeology is primarily theoretical. | 1 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3.27 | ||
| 10. An important goal of archeology is delineation of kinship structures. | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3.50 | ||
| 38. Archaeology is an objective enterprise that has at least the potentials to define objective laws of human behavior in the past. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 and 5 | 3.50 | |
| 43. Archaeology is the study of the past for the purpose of serving modern social and political objectives | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3.73 | ||
| 20. Archeological studies can be conducted in a value-free setting. | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 ad 5 | 3.79 | ||
| 41. Archeological study is primarily focused on supporting the nortmative beliefs of western society. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3.93 | ||
| 23. Archeology’s ultimate goal is nomothetic generalizations. | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 and 5 | 4.09 | ||
| 28. Archeology is a discipline with the theory, method and practice for the recovery of unobservable hominid behavior patterns from indirect traces in bad samples. | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4.31 | ||
| 24. Archeology’s ultimate objective is aesthetic pleasure. | 1 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 4.60 | |||
| 22. Archaeology is not part of anthropology. | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4.69 | |||