Historic archaeology:
a. deals with that vast segment of the human cultures that existed prior to written history.
b. analyzes the first stone tools used by humans and infers about cultures based solely on this evidence.
c. works to reconstruct the cultures of people who used writing and about whom records exist.
d. is a form of applied anthropology in which archaeologists reconstruct cultures for museums.
e. works to protect cultural resources.
ANS: C
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