The oldest known archaeological culture is the:

A. Mousterian
B. Oldowan
C. Acheulean
D. Aurignacian


B. Oldowan

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Despite differences arising from environmental variation, all foraging economies have shared one essential feature:

A. their reliance on available natural resources for their subsistence, rather than controlling the reproduction of plants and animals. B. their willingness to test out new food-producing technologies to see if they are any better than what they are used to. C. their interest in developing irrigation technologies to control sources of water. D. their emphasis on devising new forms of organic pesticides. E. their reliance on welfare supplied by state-level societies.

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Pastoralism is associated with each of the following except:

a. breeding and management of migratory herds b. establishment of permanent settlements c. trade with farmers or merchants d. sexual and age division of labor

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What do ethnolinguists primarily try to discover?

A the communicative rules of a community B the sounds that make up the language used in a community C the patterns of linguistic variation in a community D the vocabulary words unique to a community E the grammatical system of the language used in a community.

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What do we call structural similarities between species that are based on common function and not on common evolutionary descent?

a. Acquired b. Non-adaptive c. Generalized d. Homologies e. Analogies

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