Reconstructing human technology and material culture as a means of generating testable ideas about the past is known as:

a. experimental archaeology
b. processual archaeology
c. ethnoarchaeology
d. ethology
e. paleoanthropology


a

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Ultimately, our complex social behavior can be attributed to __________

a. tool use b. language c. bipedalism d. the fact that we are mammals

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Upper Paleolithic people made, used, and controlled fire as evidenced by

A) shallow graves dug into the bottom of a hearth at sites in Russia and France B) iron pyrite from a cave in Belgium C) the construction of kilns at a site in the Czech Republic D) all of the above E) none of the above

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In the Suriname Maroon society of Saramaka, male and female carvings on calabash gourds are different __________

a. in that females are professional artists while men are not b. in the kinds of tools each uses as well as the kinds of designs each carves c. because males travel widely and adopt new styles from neighboring societies d. because men are professional artists while women are not

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