When an entire language community shifts from their native language to their second language so that the native language is no longer being acquired by any children, that language has undergone the process of ____________

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language death/language obsolescence

Anthropology & Archaeology

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According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," the Tharu village of Pipariya is located adjacent to

a. the Chitwan national forest. b. the Himalayan mountains. c. the Tarai National Forest. d. the border with India.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Stone tools begin to appear in the archaeological record beginning about ________

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Anthropology & Archaeology

What is the evolutionary process that produces analogous structures called?

a. speciation b. homology c. homoplasy d. founder effect e. evolutionary systematics

Anthropology & Archaeology

Among the Melpa people of Papua New Guinea, the gift giving practice of moka requires unequal exchange

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Anthropology & Archaeology