Objects or materials made or modified by hominins are called:
a. artifacts
b. ecofacts
c. context
d. knappers
e. scrappers
A
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Which of the following correctly characterizes the Elima ritual among the Mbuti?
A. It is a time of rejoicing as young women enter puberty and become ready for marriage and motherhood. B. Young men experience mixed emotions as they become adults and warriors. C. Elders instill fear of the supernatural among young boys and girls through sacred rituals. D. Men and women celebrate through song, dance, and feasting as a new child is born into the community.
In understanding the problems that have arisen in attempts at human racial classification, why is it important to understand the difference between genotype and phenotype?
A. Although phenotypic characteristics may change, the genetic material of populations stays the same for a long time. B. Attempts at human racial classification typically used phenotypic traits like skin color as markers of common ancestry, but many such traits do not reflect the existence of shared genetic material. C. Attempts at human racial classification have typically used genotypic traits like blood type as markers of common ancestry, and these traits are passed on from generation to generation in discrete bundles. D. The phenotypical traits used to classify humans into races go together as genetic units. E. Phenotypical similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.
What postmarital residence rule is most often found in societies with lineal kinship terminologies?
A. bilocal B. patrilocal C. matrilocal D. ambilocal E. neolocal
Most anthropologists view fieldwork as a rite of passage
a. True b. False