Which of the following is NOT a behavioral ability of hominids?
a. toolmaking
b. language
c. gender-role specialization
d. being arboreal
d
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Stable carbon isotope analyses
a. are performed on fossil plants. b. are performed on teeth. c. is a relative dating method. d. are performed on volcanic rock. e. are preformed on clay remains.
Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of the work that applied anthropologists do?
A. They gather government statistics. B. They consult project managers. C. They enter the affected communities and talk with people. D. They promote development. E. They consult government officials and other experts.
Contemporary North American adults usually define their families as consisting of their husbands or wives and their children. In contrast, when middle-class Brazilians talk about their families, they mean their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles,
grandparents, and on, down to their children. They rarely mention the spouse. Which of the following is among the reasons for this stark cultural contrast? A. Brazilians readily incorporate strangers into their social worlds. B. North Americans value independence over their family. C. North Americans have more choices about where they can live, and they have chosen to live away from their relatives. D. Brazilians live in a less mobile society and so stay in closer contact with their relatives, including members of their extended family, than do North Americans. E. Brazilians have purely economic relationships with their spouses.
The story of Short Woman comes from the __________
a. Apache b. Nuer c. Cheyenne d. Arapaho