Which of the following statements about early anthropological investigations is accurate?
What will be an ideal response?
The roots of anthropological fieldwork lie in the globalization of the late 1800s.
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What is a common American view of the relationship between technology and progress?
A) ?Progress is measured by the extent to which a society borrows from other societies. B) ?Progress is best signaled by strong social control over how technology is used. C) ?Technology is the best measure of progress. D) ?Technology and progress have no necessary relationship.
In which food production system does part of the group's population accompany the herds to distant pastures and the remaining population maintain year-round villages and grow crops?
A. mixed specialization B. modified foraging C. intensive agriculturalist D. transhumance E. pastoral nomadic
The Han in China have a patrilineal descent system that is very much a “man’s world.”
a. True b. False
Which of the following is NOT an example of why archaeology is important, even when studying societies and time periods that have extensive written records?
a. Expert study of artifacts can yield information not recorded in historical records. b. Due to cultural biases in literacy rates, there are many subcultures about which little is known. c. Censorship laws and cultural bias have suppressed a large amount of written history. d. Archaeology may be able to confirm or call into question written historical records.