Experimental archaeology provides archaeologists with bridging arguments, ways to make inferences about past behavior from material remains. Which of the following is not an example of experimental archaeology?
a. Using British schoolboys to see if they could move stones similar to those used to build Stonehenge.
b. Using a stone tool to scrape hide and then examining microwear present on the tool's edge to determine the type of wear caused by hide-scraping.
c. Using seriation to construct a way to date archaeological sites based on painted pottery styles.
d. Throwing hafted spear points into elephant carcasses to determine their capacity for penetration.
e. Excavating major quarries into bedrock using only fire, wooden wedges, and stone mallets to see if materials for ancient stones tools could have been located and collected in this way.
c
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a. True b. False
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a. are fairly simple to sort by type or category. b. overlap fairly precisely with specific culture groups or societies. c. organize and direct the collective actions of the population. d. are not generally of much interest to cultural anthropologists.
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a. True b. False
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a. it reduces the costs of weddings b. it expands kinship alliances among more families c. it reduces the domestic workload of women d. it reduces friction among wives at home