What kinds of materials are found during archaeological excavations, and how are they handled upon discovery?
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Which of the following statements is true? a. Food foraging populations tend to have higher rates of fertility compared to farming populations. b. Farming populations tend to have higher rates of fertility compared to food foragers. c. Food foragers and farming populations have a very similar fertility rate
d. Fertility rates for food foragers and farming populations is not currently known.
In archaeology, stones suitably sized and shaped to be further worked into tools are called:
a. flakes. b. knappers. c. lithics. d. cores. e. blanks.
People forcibly displaced from their homes either by conflict or persecution are called:
A) persecutors. B) victims. C) refugees. D) exiles. E) diasporic communities.
Archaeologists previously believed that the supremacy of any one chiefdom spurred the period of rapid social change in Mexico between 3200 and 3000 B.P. However, they now believe that the cause of this rapid change was
A. dramatic changes in climate that affected rainfall. B. that the quality of trade routes among chiefdoms frustrated travelers and led to riots. C. the intensity of competitive interaction. D. a massive drought that required chiefdoms to cooperate to save the population from starvation. E. the chiefly centers' lack of separation and autonomy.