The Pacific Northwest potlatch feasts were held for all the following reasons except ______

a. to celebrate life-cycle transitions
b. the building of new houses
c. the defeat of a neighboring village
d. the naming of new chiefs


Answer: c

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Primatology today benefits from new research tools including and especially __________

a. DNA analyses b. biomechanics c. paleontological methods d. auditory analyses

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Current evidence places Homo heidelburgensis north of the Pyrenses Mountains in Europe after 500,000 years ago

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. Neandertals buried their dead. b. Neandertals were hunters and gatherers. c. Neandertal were cold-adapted people. d. Neandertal brains were notably smaller than those of modern humans.

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Current evidence indicates that the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens fossils are from which geographical location?

a. China b. India c. Germany d. France e. Africa

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