The first radiometric method of dating, developed by Willard H. Libby in the late 1940s, was:
A. amino acid racemization
B. fission-track dating
C. radiocarbon dating
D. electron spin resonance (ESR) dating
C. radiocarbon dating
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This chapter includes several examples linking marriage practices with issues about property and inheritance. Describe these examples. Based on what you have learned so far about marriage, kinship, adaptive strategies, and political systems, can you suggest ways in which anthropologists could help explain relationships involving property?
What will be an ideal response?
Using Excel, Big Pies Pizzas estimates the log-linear weekly demand function for their pizza to be ln Qd = 8.23 - (1.50 × ln P). If Big Pies Pizzas decreases the price of their pizzas from $12 to $10, which of the following will occur?
A) The predicted quantity (Qd ^) will decrease. B) The predicted quantity (Qd ^) will decrease by approximately 62.89 pizzas. C) The predicted quantity (Qd ^) will increase by approximately 52.48 pizzas. D) The predicted quantity (Qd ^) will increase by approximately 28.39 pizzas.
Which of the following is NOT a true statement?
A) All cultures share the same models for understanding and speaking about the world. B) Human perception is affected by an individual's role in his or her culture. C) Methods of organizing and classifying are typical of groups. D) Humans fit experiences into systems of organization. E) It is virtually impossible for humans to see things without evaluating them.
The dental arcade of modern humans is __________, whereas that of apes is __________
a. U-shaped; parabolic b. larger; smaller c. prognathic; parabolic d. parabolic; U-shaped