Potassium-argon would be used to date the age of a:

A. sedimentary layer
B. bone breccia
C. lava flow
D. tree


C. lava flow

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What phenomenon does continental drift explain?

A) much larger animals in the past B) greater biodiversity in the present C) different climates in the past D) greater specialization in the present

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Of the following theories anthropologists have proposed to explain how gender roles are divided cross-culturally, which theory says that the demands of pregnancy and nursing limit women to performing tasks close to home, like cooking and gathering

wild plants? A) compatibility-with-child-care B) economy-of-effort C) expendability D) strength

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Unlike the pattern in the Old World, plant domestication in the New World

A. occurred after the rise of the first sedentary communities. B. occurred before the rise of the first sedentary communities. C. was apparently not necessary for the development of states such as Teotihuacán. D. involved no food plants, but instead was used to increase the production of utilitarian plants such as bottle gourds and hemp. E. was begun but then abandoned before there was a chance for societies to develop into states.

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Ethnolinguistics is part of historical linguistics

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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