Trying to move stones weighing several tons using only the tools and materials that the ancient Egyptians had available to them, with the goal of determining whether or not Egyptian technology was sufficiently sophisticated to produce monuments like the pyramids, is an example of
a. experimental archaeology.
b. ethnoarchaeology.
c. analogy.
d. uniformitarianism.
e. taphonomy
a
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Where resources are scarce and large areas are needed to support the population, territorial boundaries are:
a. Strictly defended and the cause of high amounts of conflict. b. Loosely marked, but strictly defended by military coalitions. c. Usually not defended. d. Strictly marked, but loosely defended during certain seasons. e. Marked and privately owned by influential members of the community.
Anthropologists, as compared to other social scientists, have spent a great deal of time studying kinship because they have:
a. always focused largely on biological relationships. b. concentrated mainly on small-scale societies where kinship relations tend to be important. c. always studied fictional relationships and how societies are organized socially and politically. d. concentrated on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important and affect the individual's ability to survive. e. have found that kinship is the single most significant factor in social organization in every human society.
Compare pyramid construction in Egypt and Mesoamerica.
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Homo habilis lived in Africa from about ________
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