Which of the following would not be considered a basic characteristic shared by all cultures?
A) Cultures are adaptive.
B) Cultures all involve classification systems and symbols.
C) Cultures are patterned and integrated.
D) Cultures are made up of instinctual behaviors.
E) Cultures are subject to change.
D
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Which of the following statements about dowry payments is true?
a. The family of the groom may benefit from dowry payment because they can use wealth to achieve greater status. b. The family of the bride may benefit from dowry payment because they can use that wealth to achieve greater status. c. Dowry payments usually remain the property of the bride. d. Dowry payments always protect the interests of a wife in a patrilineal and patriarchal society.
Which of the following is true of the Hudson-Meng site in northwest Nebraska?
a. Taphonomic research suggests that humans played little, if any, role in the deaths of the 500 bison at the site. b. The presence of hundreds of projectile points among the bison bone strongly suggests the bison were dispatched by human hunters. c. The presence of unequivocal cutmarks on many of the bison bone provides strong evidence of butchery by humans. d. The fact that most of the bison bones were highly disarticulated and scattered provides evidence of butchering by humans. e. Based on studies elsewhere the bison were determined to have been shot, or they froze to death or died of old age.
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