The original study, "Action Archaeology and the Community at El Pilar" describes action archaeology as:

a. accelerating the pace of excavations.
b. using the most technologically advanced excavation equipment.
c. following streamlined protocols regarding participant observation.
d. questioning the use of excavations.
e. using past solutions for contemporary populations.


e

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__________ is perhaps the major human endeavor

a. Language b. Communication c. Culture d. Reproduction.

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A crucial difference between structured and unstructured interviews is that __________

A. unstructured interviews involve asking the same question of everyone in a sample of the population B. structured interviews involve asking the same question of everyone in a sample of the population C. unstructured interviews require participants to reveal their true identities D. structured interviews require participants to reveal their true identities

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The difference between a productive resource and a capital resource is:

a. Capital resources can exist only in modern industrialized nations. Productive resources exist everywhere. b. Capital resources can exist only in modern industrialized nations. Productive resources exist only in traditional societies. c. The ownership of capital resources makes one wealthy, but the ownership of productive resources does not. d. Capital resources are used to generate profit for their owners, while productive resources do not necessarily have this function. e. Capital resources can be sold or inherited, productive resources cannot.

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Formation processes are

a. processes by which cultural evolution is recognized in the archaeological record. b. the ways in which natural depositional processes operate to produce the archaeological record. c. the ways in which both human behaviors and natural actions operate to produce the archaeological record. d. processes by which artifacts are transferred from systemic to archaeological contexts. e. how artifacts enter the archaeological record but not how they are modified once they are there.

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