Where do we find the highest genetic diversity among human populations?
A) Africa
B) Asia
C) Europe
D) the Americas
A
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The earliest evidence for humans in Australia dates back to __________ years ago
a. 20,000 b. 30,000 c. 40,000 d. 90,000
Which of the following might be interpreted as a modern example of the potlatch?
A. A local politician gives away hundreds of frozen turkeys at a campaign rally. B. A special interest group pays the salary and expenses of a lobbyist. C. A former president makes speeches in favor of his party's new candidate. D. Delegates at a national convention trade buttons and other campaign memorabilia.
Which of the following is a characteristic of symbols and their archaeological study?
a. The same symbolic act can be made to carry enormous amounts of information, making it difficult for an outsider to know what a particular symbol "means". b. There is a necessary link between an object and its symbolic meaning, making it necessary to be able to identify the object. c. Symbols are powerful, but they are not difficult to study archaeologically. d. It is not worthwhile to explore human behavior as a system of meanings, but rather as merely acts that meet material needs. e. Symbols are not studied archaeologically.
Which of the following statements is true of cross-cultural studies?
A. They allow anthropologists to make distinctions between behaviors that are culture specific and those that are universal. B. They make it possible for anthropologists to determine if a social trait is biologically inherited or culturally derived. C. They are no longer used by anthropologists because this older methodology has been shown to produce false results due to both temporal and geographic lag. D. They cannot be conducted today because there has been too much migration from one culture to another due to modern transportation.