Burins are special projectile points for hunting large game like mammoths

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: F

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A. They were fully bipedal. B. They have been found predominantly in West Africa. C. They were primarily carnivores. D. They lived in the tropical forest. E. They had a greater cranial capacity than Homo erectus.

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Which anthropologist argues that religion is a “system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations….”?

a. Max Weber b. ?Clifford Geertz c. Edward Tylor d. Emile Durkheim

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Which of the following is an example of a transition that a bioarchaeologist is likely to study?

a. the introduction of agriculture to a small hunter-gatherer group b. a modern mass grave in Yugoslavia c. the adoption of a new language by a large group of people d. the change from burials to cremations in a particular culture

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Which of these statements about ethnohistory is FALSE?

a. There are no hard and fast rules for evaluating the written accounts used in the research. b. Ethnohistorians study nonliterate peoples. c. One way to verify accuracy is to find accounts of an event written by different people. d. Accounts of religious ceremonies and coming of age rituals are the most commonly studied.

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