How do archaeologists determine social status within early civilizations?
What will be an ideal response?
They assign social status based on documents, dwelling sizes, location of dwelling, age at death, and grave goods/burials.
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a. warfare b. food acquisition c. weather d. funeral rites
Racist views during World War II were responsible for which of the following?
A. the arrest of Communist Party members B. the renaming of towns with German names C. the deportation of Italian Americans D. the internment of Japanese Americans
Barring errors in replication, cells divide meiotically to form identical daughter cells
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What cultural biases entered into the paleoanthropological record surrounding Homo habilis?
a. Assumption that tool-making was important to early human ancestors b. Allowing only male paleoanthropologists to work with understanding and recreating the process of making earlytools c. Assumption that men, women, and children lived as a family in society d. Assumption that women were gatherers and provided most of the daily caloric intake, while men stayed athome caring for the young e. Assumption that among our earliest ancestors the women stayed at home tending young and the men werehunters