Herders are able to live in very difficult terrain because
a. they have developed more sophisticated cultivation practices than horticulturalists.
b. their herds can eat vegetation that humans cannot digest, and turn it into milk and meat.
c. they are extremely isolationist and prefer living in areas with very small populations.
d. None of these; herders do not live in difficult environments.
b
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Which of the following is/are evidence of robust australopiths' adaptation to eating hard-shelled seeds and grasses?
A. the presence of very large molars and a sagittal crest on the top of the skull B. fine finger bones and a large mandible C. massive fossilized temporalis muscles D. bipedalism, providing the mobility necessary to gather food in open grasslands E. a small but flexible masseter muscle and an enlarged occipital bun
The incest taboo is the minimal __________ rule
a. marriage b. endogamy c. exogamy d. polygamy
Gender differences among tropical and semitropical foragers shows that
A. the distinction between public and domestic spheres of activity is much sharper than it is in most horticultural societies. B. women never take part in hunting. C. women's work usually contributes more to the diet than does men's work; consequently, there is less gender stratification. D. the status of women is much lower than it is among northern foragers like the Inuit. E. there is no sex-based division of labor.
Mary Douglas, a symbolic anthropologist, has argued that which of the following explains Near Eastern food taboos such as the prohibition against eating pork?
a. Prohibited animals are those that violate cultural ideas about the order of creation. b. Any food will be tabooed when the cost of producing it outweighs its value (in calories or nutrients). c. Animals included in food taboos are always those that do not occur naturally in the geographic region of the taboo; either the animal never lived in the region, or they lived there once and are no extinct. d. Avoiding certain animals had to do with basic food content, not a continual affirmation of what constitutes God's order in the universe. e. people of Jewish and Islamic faiths think alike.