How did paleoanthropologists initially receive Dart's findings on the Taung Child?
a. They were ignored entirely.
b. They were used to immediately discredit Piltdown man.
c. They were immediately accepted and used to create a new hominin phylogeny.
d. They were debated, but Piltdown man was still widely accepted as the earliest hominin.
Correct Answer: d
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a. foraging b. pastoralism c. horticulture d. agriculture
Archaeologist Ian Gilligan differentiates between what two types of clothing and their thermal effectiveness in situations of extreme cold in explaining Neanderthal extinction?
A) Mousterian and Oldowan B) simple and complex C) handmade and manufactured D) Neolithic and Paleolithic
Why did the researchers in the New Hope Antipoverty program decide to implement qualitative methodology?
a. They did not understand the quantitative data that they were gathering. b. They found a great deal of variability in the way people in the program made choices. c. The researchers were anthropologists and had been trained to use qualitative field methods. d. Qualitative methods were the only kinds of data-gathering that the local people would allow. e. Use of qualitative methodology was required by the grant agencies involved in this program.
Name two major changes that have occurred to the Inuit people's subsistence strategy during the past few decades
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