Evidence for Neandertal symbolic behavior includes __________
a. musical instruments
b. engraved items
c. extensive personal adornment
d. cave paintings
Correct Answer: b
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Which of the following is NOT an important difference between patrilineal and matrilineal societies?
a. Among matrilineal descent groups, male authority is weak while it is strong in patrilineal descent groups. b. Members of a lineage are linked directly by birth in patrilineal systems while in matrilineal systems they are not. c. Among matrilineal descent groups, marital bonds are weak while they are strong in patrilineal descent groups. d. In patrilineal systems, women tend to leave their own kin group after marriage while in matrilineal systems men tend to live with their wife’s kin.
List some of the primary differences and similarities between horticultural and foraging groups.
What will be an ideal response?
In which society did people not marry, but rather lived their whole lives in a residential group made up of maternal kin?
A) Na B) Subanun C) Kwakiutl D) Hadza
The fact that material culture reflects symbolic meanings as well as functional behaviors means
a. the symbolic meanings of artifacts are easily inferred by understanding their function in a culture. b. it can be difficult to construct middle-level theory that allows us to interpret archaeological patterning and to infer social and political organization from artifacts. c. it is difficult to infer functional behaviors from artifacts without understanding the political and social organization a culture. d. it does not require well-supported ethnographic analogy. e. there will never be new techniques to test various hypotheses and continue to improve the reconstruction of the past.