How has Lewis-Williams explained the cave paintings at Lascaux?
a. The paintings represented totems, from which lineages or clans believed themselves to be descended.
b. The paintings were left by hunters seeking to mark the territory as their own, and provided a sign to other hunters that they were not welcome.
c. The paintings had no real symbolic meaning, and were essentially "art-for-art's sake", appreciated for its aesthetic value but containing little cultural meaning.
d. The paintings are related to altered states of consciousness, and ultimately represent Upper Paleolithic people pondering the meaning of life.
e. The paintings are ancient depictions of instructions on the taboo of conducting ritual vision quests.
d
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a. Teaching paleoanthropology at a university b. Working for local governments to improve services c. Performing a case study for a doctorate dissertation d. Studying the mating habits of nonhuman primates
People from the same culture can predict one another's behavior because:
a. culture determines behavior. b. culture conditions behavior. c. all people in any given society accept exactly the same rules for behavior. d. all people in any given society have exactly the same ideas. e. culture groups are programmed to imitate each other.
Define the meaning of adolescent growth spurt
What will be an ideal response?
Gigantopithecus was the largest primate that ever lived
a. true b. false