In the United States, what percentage of families is considered to be “nuclear” today??

Technology can best be generally defined as:

a. ?the ability to alter the world around us culturally. b. ?tools we use for everyday life subsistence tasks. c. ?tools, techniques, skills and devices, and the technical information to use them. d. ?digital and electronic devices associated with communication.

The oldest African H. erectus fossils were found at __________

a. Koobi Fora b. west Turkana c. the Bouri Formation d. Olduvai Gorge

This chapter mentions the work of Wolf and Mintz, both students of Julian Steward, as illustrations of approaches that

A. put human agency at the center of cultural analysis. B. focus on the study of cultures as closed systems, untouched by regional and even global dynamics. C. ignore the role of history in shaping culture as we know it. D. consider the relevance of world-system theory and political economy to anthropology. E. are just as deterministic as the old evolutionary models, but for different reasons.

Traits that reflect specific evolutionary lineages and can be informative of evolutionary relationships are called

a. ancestral (primitive). b. acquired. c. derived (modified). d. convergent characters. e. analogies.