The Mousterian tool kits contained a much greater variety of tool types than the previous traditions and allowed users to do all of the following except:
a. intensify their utilization of food resources.
b. increase the quality of clothing.
c. increase the availability of clothing.
d. increase the quality of shelter.
e. make fire.
e
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The uprising against the Mexican government in Chiapas during the 1990s was a Mayan reaction to all of the following EXCEPT __________
a. the expansion of wealthy ranchers into Mayan land b. the flooding of Mayan land for hydroelectric projects c. agreements between the Mexican government and pharmaceutical companies for exploitation of forest resources d. public projects to develop and generate electricity from hydropower that led to water shortages on indigenous lands
Archbishop James Ussher calculated the year of the earth's creations as
A) 6,500 B. C. B) 4.5 billion years ago C) 10,000 B.C. D) 5-7 million years ago E) 4004 B.C.
Which of the following is NOT true about the peopling of the Americas?
A. The Clovis people were not the first settlers of the Americas. B. The first migration(s) of people into the Americas may date back 18,000 years. C. Analysis of DNA suggests the Americas were settled by more than one haplogroup—a lineage marked by one or more specific genetic mutations. D. Researchers calculate that it would have taken from 600 to 1,000 years for the first Americans and their descendants to travel by land from the southern part of the Canadian ice-free corridor to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America—a distance of more than 8,680 miles. E. The first migration of people into the Americas reached the continent's southwestern coasts from the Pacific islands.
Which of the following statements accurately describes Tiwi society?
a. Women accumulate prestige as they age and accumulate large families. b. Women accumulate prestige only if they are skilled healers. c. Men avoid attempts to accumulate prestige in order to avoid conflict. d. Men use wealth strategically to accumulate prestige.