Explain the relationship between the allocation of resources and food production. Show how foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, and intensive agriculturalists denote ownership of land, food, and tools
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Clearly link food production with resources
2. Discuss exceptions to the general pattern (such as river-fishing foragers)
3. Give specific examples of how food, tools, or land are allocated
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Excavations between Bed I and Bed II at Olduvai suggest that significant changes in technology occurred during a comparatively short 200,000-year period. The tools found illustrate a shift toward functional differentiation, which means that
A. the same tools were being used more creatively for a variety of uses. B. some tools were used for utilitarian purposes, whereas others served ritualistic purposes. C. there was a broadening of the range of staples in diet, despite the fact that the tools remained unchanged. D. males used heavier tools, and females, lighter ones. E. the tools were being made and used for different jobs, such as smashing bones or digging for tubers.
The distinctive fluted spear points used by early Native Americans (Paleoindians) to hunt large-bodied Ice Age mammals are:
a. Mousterian points. b. Solutrean blades. c. Levallois flakes d. Folsom points.