Most present-day foragers
A. live in marginal environments.
B. live largely in isolation from food-producing neighbors and the influence of the state.
C. primarily fish for subsistence.
D. adopted foraging after abandoning more advanced subsistence strategies.
E. are wholly dependent on welfare supplied by state-level societies.
Answer: A
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A) Anthropologists agree on the basic characteristics of culture, but disagree on the relative importance of those characteristics and on how they study them. B) Anthropologists agree on the basic characteristics of culture and on the importance of each of those characteristics, but they do not all study observable behavior. C) Anthropologists see culture distinctly and do not agree on the basic characteristics of culture. D) Anthropologists study observable behavior, but only a few of them study cultural attributes. E) Anthropologists study observable behavior, but the meanings and understandings that people attach to their behavior is not important to anthropologists.
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A) social differentiation. B) stratification. C) social complexity. D) egalitarianism. E) political organization.
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a. Sweden b. United States c. Papua New Guinea d. Lesotho
The term "cyclopean" describes the massive ______ at Mycenaean sites
A. walls B. tombs C. temples D. houses