What is the study of archaeology?

What will be an ideal response?


It is a major subfield that studies past cultures through the excavation and analysis of artifacts and other material remains.

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The absence of animal bones at Kalambo Falls indicates that meat eating did not take place at the site.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Which of the following is NOT an informal means of social control?

A) satire B) slander C) shunning D) adjudication E) gossip

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Once they were introduced and perfected in the 1950s, generative grammars ceased to evolve.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Why are many peasant farmers in less developed countries resistant to adopting practices and crops even when they are genuine improvements?

a. Peasant farmers have supernatural beliefs about farming and fear offending the spirit world. b. The peasant farmers do not understand that there are crops and practices that might be more efficient than the ones they use. c. Subsistence farmers know that, while not ideal, the plants and practices they have been using are well adapted to the local environment. d. Due to the backfire effect, objectively false beliefs often become stronger rather than weaker when presented with contradicting evidence.

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