What is the most significant consequence of cargo systems, according to anthropologists?
A) They allow redistribution of wealth and keep economic differences from forming within the society.
B) They allow all people in a society to hold religious and social positions of power and influence.
C) They are the only source of authority and political influence within a society.
D) They provide a means for elders within the society to maintain power beyond their age prime.
E) They serve to reinforce social hierarchies and economic differences.
E
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Fossils of Au. afarensis are particularly significant because
A. they are the oldest hominin fossils yet found in the New World. B. Au. afarensis remains are the oldest to be found in association with evidence of both stone tools and fire use. C. they show that the gracile australopithecines were not hominins after all. D. they comprise the first fossil evidence to confirm that bipedalism preceded the evolution of a humanlike brain. E. they show that humans evolved in Asia rather than Africa.
Linguistic anthropology focuses on all of the following, EXCEPT __________
a. the relationship between language and culture b. how language is used within society c. how language is identified in the archaeological record d. the effects of globalization upon indigenous languages
The 1990 typhoon and floods that killed over 10,000 in Bangladesh is a direct result of:
a. deterioration of dams along tributaries of the Indus River. b. previous destruction of natural resources. c. the way infrastructure development is set back by population increases. d. domestication of plants and animals. e. problems derived from an increase of people living in low lying permanent settlements and keeping preyspecies.
The most common artifacts of the past are
a. wooden tools. b. stone tools. c. iron tools. d. plastic tools.