Key domesticated animals at Mehrgarh after 6000 B.C. were the:
A. gazelles.
B. horses.
C. sheep.
D. cattle.
Answer: D
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A material function of sacrificing cattle as part of a religious festival suggests that:
a. Cattle stand for the deviant members of society and killing them purifies society. b. Communal feasts are an effective way of distributing meat in societies without refrigeration. c. Meat is not an important resource in societies that practice such sacrifice. d. People who sacrifice animals have little understanding of ecology or proper animal husbandry. e. Only weak, sick, and elderly beasts are actually killed, thus proper management techniques are enshrined in religious ritual.
Economic anthropologists study production, distribution, and consumption _____
a. only in industrialized societies of the world b. only in the nonindustrialized societies of the world c. in all of the societies in the world, industrialized and nonindustrialized d. only in the pastoral societies of the world e. in all societies where there is market exchange
Polygenic traits
a. are discrete. b. have a continuous range of expression. c. are controlled by only one genetic locus. d. include the ABO blood type system and cystic fibrosis. e. are also called Mendelian traits.
Molecular anthropologists have used genetic technologies to investigate the relationships between human populations as well as nonhuman primates
Indicate whether the statement is true or false