Since horticultural societies rarely produce great surpluses of food, they usually use some of the population control techniques employed by foragers; which of the following is NOT a technique regularly used?
a. infanticide
b. ritual periods of sexual abstinence
c. prolonged periods of breast-feeding
d. adoptions
d
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a. fine art b. plastic art c. material art d. representational art e. physical art
What is armed aggression and hostilities between groups called?
a. Reconciliation b. Warfare c. Deference d. Witchcraft
Who among the following individuals was opposed to the use of the term race?
a. Carolus Linnaeus b. Franz Boas c. Ashley Montagu d. Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith
How has Lewis-Williams explained the cave paintings at Lascaux?
a. The paintings represented totems, from which lineages or clans believed themselves to be descended. b. The paintings were left by hunters seeking to mark the territory as their own, and provided a sign to other hunters that they were not welcome. c. The paintings had no real symbolic meaning, and were essentially "art-for-art's sake", appreciated for its aesthetic value but containing little cultural meaning. d. The paintings are related to altered states of consciousness, and ultimately represent Upper Paleolithic people pondering the meaning of life. e. The paintings are ancient depictions of instructions on the taboo of conducting ritual vision quests.