Which of the following is an example of an ascribed status?
A. The Prime Minister of Canada
B. A professor of archaeology
C. The Queen of England
D. The President of the United States
E. A quarterback in the Super Bowl
Answer: C
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d. It is an eating disorder found among Japanese teenage girls. e. It is a form of spirit possession found in the Philippines.
In South Africa's Blombos Cave, a 100,000-year-old paint factory was recently discovered. This find indicates that
A. modern behavior is much older than anthropologists once believed. B. Neandertals created art and had symbolic thought. C. humans made red paint for functional but not symbolic reasons. D. Neandertals used paint in different ways than anatomically modern humans. E. artistic behaviors developed before anatomically modern bodies.
All of the following are altered to accommodate bipedalism in the human skeleton except the:
a. pelvis. b. feet. c. spinal column. d. forelimbs. e. skull.
The transmission of information from a sender to a receiver is termed:
A. language B. articulation C. communication D. displacement