The cranial remains from Dmanisi are characteristic of all of the following except
a. are easily distinguishable from modern Homo sapiens
b. bear some similarities to early Homo specimens from East Africa
c. bear similarities to australopithecus specimens
d. have very small cranial capacities
e. are different from other hominins outside Africa
c
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When the Batak foragers of the Philippines incorporated agriculture into their subsistence economy,
A) they immediately became sedentary. B) they did not abandon hunting and gathering, but now combine it with cultivation and participation in the market economy. C) they no longer allowed foreign tourists to enter their territory. D) they continued hunting, but only with blowguns. E) they began to use a wider range of animal and plant resources than in the past.
The theoretical approach exhibited in the Marvin Harris inset on “Pig Lovers and Pig Haters” arguing that the natural conditions made pig-raising inefficient over the long-term is:
a. symbolic anthropology. b. neo-evolutionism. c. cultural ecology. d. political ecology. e. cultural materialism.
Even though all humans have approximately the same set of special senses for perceiving reality (eyes, ears, noses), not all of the sensations in the environment reach our consciousness in the same way since each language filters out different parts of reality. Each language provides the speaker with a built-in filter that heightens, dims, or eliminates certain perceptions, thus determining how we perceive reality. This thesis is called the:
a. Chomsky theory b. Sapir-whorf hypothesis c. filter theory d. Sieve theory
In which groups of pastoralists is private ownership most likely to develop?
A) those that depend on selling their products to non-pastoralists B) groups that have limited space for grazing C) groups in which people must save some of their herds for future generations D) those that use their animals to represent wealth