Why is an understanding of space-time systematics a crucial first step in understanding why people did what they did in the past?
a. Space-time systematics automatically explains why prehistory took the course that it did; in other words, explanatory hypotheses are built into space-time systematics.
b. Research questions generated by space-time systematics are easily answered because the necessary data have already been collected.
c. It is impossible to understand why cultures change without first documenting how and when material culture changed over time.
d. Different regions in a culture area change in lockstep with one another, so knowing the appearance in one area determines the appearance in another.
e. Archaeological cultures are ethnographic cultures.
c
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Somatic cells are not:
a. those that make up tissues, e.g. muscles and the brain. b. one type of eukaryotic cell. c. also known as gametes. d. basically all the cells in the body except those involved in reproduction. e. the cellular components of tissue.
Which of these is not a major criticism of the nineteenth century unilineal evolutionists?
a. They were ethnocentric in their thinking. b. They believed that all cultures are equally valid. c. They argued that all cultures evolved through the same set of progressive stages. d. They did not study each culture "on its own terms.".
What is the relationship between ultraviolet radiation, vitamin D, and skin color?
What will be an ideal response?
Which cultural practice most contributes to Neandertals' rather frequent appearance in the fossil record?
a. burial of the dead b. development of flake technology c. migration within a known area d. cave dwelling