What cultural biases entered into the paleoanthropological record surrounding Homo habilis?
a. Assumption that tool-making was important to early human ancestors
b. Allowing only male paleoanthropologists to work with understanding and recreating the process of making earlytools
c. Assumption that men, women, and children lived as a family in society
d. Assumption that women were gatherers and provided most of the daily caloric intake, while men stayed athome caring for the young
e. Assumption that among our earliest ancestors the women stayed at home tending young and the men werehunters
e
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To what did Kent Flannery (1969) refer with the term broad-spectrum revolution?
A. the period in which the first large states began to grow, although there was nothing actually "revolutionary" about it because this process occurred very gradually B. the period in which a wider range of tools was being fabricated, for both utilitarian and ritualistic purposes C. the period beginning around 15,000 B.P. in the Middle East and 12,000 B.P. in Europe, during which a wider range of plant and animal life was hunted, gathered, collected, caught, and fished D. the period between 20,000 B.P. and 10,000 B.P. when anatomically modern humans colonized the entire world, made possible by a smarter utilization of a wider range of environments E. the period in which Asia became the only place in the world with communities leading a sedentary life and engaging in food and animal domestication
During which epoch did rifting begin to occur to the African landmass eventually resulting in the creation of the Great Rift Valley system?
a. Paleocene b. Eocene c. Oligocene d. Miocene e. Pliocene
The main function of bridewealth is to:
a. Assure that the new family has sufficient wealth to support itself. b. Increase the status of the bride's family. c. Legitimate the marriage. d. Reimburse the bride's family for her high school fees. e. Provide the bride and groom with furnishings for their new home.
The two theorists (one in England and one in the U.S.) who were of great importance to fieldwork were:
a. Tylor and Morgan. b. Boas and Morgan. c. Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown. d. Boas and Malinowski. e. Mead and Geertz.