The Inca are unusual in that:
a. they lived to an extremely old age.
b. women were the main rulers and men served as the administrators.
c. they developed the first computational system and had a mathematical systems based on zero.
d. they supported a civilization by food foraging.
e. they had no writing? instead, they used colored strings with knots to keep records.
e
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The multiregional model argues that modern humans
A) evolved in Asia from Homo heidelburgensis and spread to all other parts of the world B) evolved in Europe from the Neandertals and replaced other populations in the surrounding areas C) evolved from 5 archaic populations into the major populations of today D) evolved more or less simultaneously across the Old World from several ancestral populations and with considerable gene flow E) none of these
At Home St. Jean in Rwanda, forensic archaeologists concluded that a mass grave site was part of a program of genocide because of all of the following except
a. cut marks on bones showed that many individuals were killed by machetes from behind, as if they were fleeing their attackers. b. cut marks on the bones of hands and forearms showed that some people were unmercifully macheted to death with their arms raised in self defense. c. the murdered civilians were unarmed. d. the archaeologists recovered several hundred sets of remains e. no remains were found, but there were locals who told gruesome stories of abuse.
Which of the following is a museum position typically filled by anthropologists?
A) marketing director B) collection manager C) financial manager D) volunteer director
What role have forensic anthropologists played in recent human rights investigations?
A) They provide a voice for underrepresented cultures in legal matters. B) They connect indigenous communities with Western medical treatments. C) They investigate and preserve the lifeways of dying cultures. D) They locate and identify victims of state-sanctioned killings.