Compare the Binford-Flannery model with the research of Mark Cohen concerning the origins of food production by around 10,000 years ago. What evidence is required to support each of these theories?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1, Binford-Flannery's focus on population pressure within a small area
2, Cohen's interpretation of global population pressure and restriction on mobility
3, Archaeological evidence of rapid population growth, overcrowding, and migration
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Allen's rule does not hold for human populations
a. True b. False
More than half the poor children in the United States live in families headed by women.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following statements is true? a. Food foraging populations tend to have higher rates of fertility compared to farming populations. b. Farming populations tend to have higher rates of fertility compared to food foragers. c. Food foragers and farming populations have a very similar fertility rate
d. Fertility rates for food foragers and farming populations is not currently known.
According to Sir James Frazer's view of how human thought developed
a. science would replace the errors in thinking of magic and religious beliefs. b. magic, religion, and science were equally valid methods of understanding the world. c. science and magic were more rational approaches to understanding than religion. d. rational thought and religious thinking were two separate aspects of the human mind.