What archaeological feature associated with the development of agriculture has been interpreted as indicative of the development of economically and socially cohesive communities in the Near East?
a. compounds of small round shelters
b. storage facilities
c. multiroom rectangular houses
d. communal burial sites
e. communal agricultural fields
c
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Sugar and cotton helped fuel the development of a capitalist world economy.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
In survey research, what is sampling?
A. The collection of a representative sample of a larger population B. The interviewing of a small number of key cultural consultants C. Participant observation D. The collection of life histories of every member in a community E. The recording of the emic perspective
Anthropologist have found that kinship in industrial states
a. often becomes solidified and molded into large descent groups called oligoclans b. becomes much more important and clearly defined than in preindustrial societies c. becomes less important as new structures and organizations replace and begin to perform many of the functions associated with kinship in preindustrial societies d. tends to remain about the same as is found in chiefdom societies
Which of these is a consequence of intensive agriculture?
A) a simple political organization B) a transient, nomadic lifestyle C) a high degree of craft specialization D) smaller population groups