The standard kinship system in North America as well as in many other industrialized nations is
a. patrilineal descent.
b. matrilineal descent.
c. bilateral descent.
d. mostly patrilineal descent, with an almost equal amount of bilateral descent.
e. shared by all other nonindustrialized societies in the world.
c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Footprints preserved in 3.6 million-year-old volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, indicate that
A. some of our early ancestors may have worn crude sandals. B. A. africanus was on his/her way out of Africa. C. A. boisei and A. africanus both lived about 3.6 million years ago. D. A. afarensis was quadripedal. E. bipedalism definitely preceded marked brain expansion in human evolution.
Your textbook argues that jobs for anthropologists are:
a. Far more plentiful than jobs for sociologists or English majors. b. Easily available for those with a BA in the field. c. About the same as those available to students in other Liberal Arts disciplines. d. Expected to greatly increase in number in the next five to ten years. e. Rare and generally only available to those with Masters degrees and PhDs.
__________ can affect the rate at which a body decays
a. The age of the deceased individual b. The overall health of the deceased individual c. The type of soil in which the deceased individual was buried d. Nothing