Anthropological archaeologists use relative dating to
A. determine precise dates in numbers.
B. overlay various maps of a site, producing a composite map.
C. superimpose motifs from one site onto designs found at another site.
D. locate sites during a systematic survey.
E. create a relative chronology for the materials uncovered during excavation.
E
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The tonowi of the Kapauku of New Guinea acquires political power by all of the following except:
a. being generous. b. being coercive. c. being a good talker. d. being wealthy. e. being a male.
One of the reasons the discovery of the specimen Au. garhi and other materials in its site is important is that it provided evidence that large mammals were being butchered, which suggests that australopiths were stone toolmakers with some capacity for culture.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
How do tribes differ from bands?
a. Tribes have formally organized institutions that unite scattered communities. b. People in tribes are generally unrelated to each other. c. Tribes tend to have a great deal of inequality among members. d. All of these are differences between tribes and bands.
Ethnohistorians are interested in __________
a. using historical documents rather than fieldwork to do anthropology b. constructing a global cultural world history based on the Human Relations Area Files c. reconstructing and interpreting the history of indigenous peoples from their point of view d. creating a more scientific basis for the study of cultural histories