When Larsen used height estimates to track changes in the diets of people who lived on the St. Catherine's Island and the coast of Georgia, he found
a. males and females of the hunter-gatherer population were consistently shorter than the later agricultural population.
b. the heights of both males and females were unaffected.
c. the height of the female agriculturalists were the most affected by the change in the diet.
d. the height of the female agriculturalists remained constant, but the male agriculturalists were considerably taller than the male hunter-gatherers.
e. the average female in the foraging population was 3% shorter than their agricultural descendants.
c
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a. Indigenous land was considered “unoccupied wasteland” that could be appropriated to the government. b. Indigenous people did not “own” their land because they did not transform it through labor. c. Europeans could take lands they conquered simply by self-declared “right of discovery.”. d. Eradication and genocide of indigenous, pagan populations was a sacred mission of Christianity.
The organic analogy of a culture is an example of the characteristic that
a. cultures are constantly changing. b. cultures are adaptive and maladaptive. c. cultures are generally interconnected. d. culture influences biological processes. e. there are cultural universals.
What form of horticulture involves working the land for a short time, then leaving it idle for a few years?
A) permanent cultivation B) monocropping C) cash cropping D) shifting cultivation
Slaves are persons who do not own their own labor. As such, they represent a(n) __________
A) class B) ethnicity C) caste D) society