The best place for a bioarchaeologist to look to determine the sex of human skeletal remains is:
a. the skull.
b. the pelvis.
c. the sacrum.
d. the dentition.
e. the long bones.
b
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The extinction of many genera of large animals during the Late Pleistocene may be due to:
A. a meteorite B. the beginning of the Ice Age C. hunting by Homo sapiens D. the ending of the Ice Age
Like Mesopotamia and China, many early civilizations came to rely on metallurgy. Aside from metallurgy, a skill that set the early civilizations of Peru's Andes apart was
A. trigonometry and advanced astronomy. B. the ability to achieve similar metallurgical results without ever discovering smelting, the high-temperature process by which pure metal is produced from ore. C. their pottery techniques. D. writing, which originated in this part of the world and not in Sumer as was previously believed. E. corpse embalming.
The task of the cultural anthropologist is to:
a. describe the various parts of the culture he or she studies. b. study aspects of a culture in isolation from the rest of the cultural system. c. show how parts of a culture are independent from one another. d. determine if one culture is more moral than another. e. work to help develop the most adaptive type of culture to improve human potential.
Andrea Louie studied the ethnic Han group of China by collecting data in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and southern China. This approach is an example of:
a. transnational ethnography. b. multi-sited ethnography. c. diasporic ethnography. d. transitional ethnography. e. salvage ethnography.