The abbreviation "BC" referring to age in an archaeological or historic context means:
a. By Century
b. Before Common Era
c. Before Christ
d. Before Coming
e. By Christian Era
c
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Which of the following is a common focus of primate field studies?
a. phylogenetic reconstruction b. DNA sequencing c. ecology d. behavioral experiments
The __________ system uses kin terms that emphasize the difference between one's parents' same-sex siblings and parents' opposite-sex siblings, classifying parallel cousins with one's own siblings
a. Eskimo b. Crow c. Iroquois d. Omaha
The area of linguistic anthropology that examines and describes the ways that words are arranged into phrases and sentences is called:
a. phonology. b. morphology. c. syntax. d. transformational grammar.
The legal and scientific debates that arose after the discovery in 1996 of a skeleton dubbed Kennewick Man illustrates all of the following EXCEPT
A. the ineffectiveness of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which has no real legal or political recognition. B. that scientific knowledge is not politically or culturally neutral. C. the often-complicated ethical implications of unearthing human remains and attempting to reconstruct their physical and cultural identities. D. the fact that not everyone appreciates anthropology all the time. E. that sometimes questions of ownership of and access to physical and archaeological remains place anthropologists and indigenous people in opposing camps.