What event was a major turning point in better understanding the subsistence roles of men and women in early human societies?
a. The development of experimental archaeology that allowed paleoanthropology to test more than one theory at atime
b. The ability of male paleoanthropologists to recreate examples of early human foraging lifestyles and gatherevidence of different gender roles
c. The work of cultural anthropologists in studying modern foragers and projecting ethnographic analogies backonto our early foraging beginnings
d. The development of female physical anthropologists who introduced a more balanced perspective into thescientific record
e. The introduction of new forms of data collection that allowed scientists to find actual evidence of femaleforaging abilities in the fossil record
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a. based on intellect b. inherited through families c. limited to those individuals who have already served in the house of commons d. based on religious affiliation and achieved status
One of the few exceptions to chiefdoms as farming societies were the foraging-based chiefdoms of __________
a. coastal regions of Southern Africa b. the Amazon Basin c. Southern India and Bangladesh d. the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America
What are both carbon-14 and potassium-argon dating techniques based on?
A. radioactive decay B. stratigraphic associations C. reversals of magnetic fields D. accumulations of mineral salts E. relative as opposed to absolute dating
A scientist who studies the fossil record of human evolution is a(n)
A. paleoanthropologist. B. treasure hunter. C. archaeologist. D. ethnologist. E. primatologist.