Horticulture refers to the type of farming that:
a. relies on irrigation systems and fertilizers.
b. relies predominantly on hand tools for household consumption.
c. uses human and animal energy to bring high yields of crops.
d. produces a large surplus for market.
e. involves hired labor or cooperative fields.
b
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Which of the following statements is true?
A. There is universal agreement on the number of species represented by all hominin fossils. B. A clear chronological framework has been devised for fossil hominins. C. Each fossil hominin, as it is discovered, is automatically designated as a new and separate species. D. "Lumpers" and "splitters" disagree on the taxonomic status of hominin fossils.
Which of the following is most relevant to doing any kind of good anthropological research?
a. ?The number of interviews that the researcher can acquire while in the field b. The quality of relationships with the people being studied c. The amount of prior experience the researcher has had before any fieldwork occurs d. ?The number of fieldworkers working within a site at any given time
"Lucy" is the nearly 40% complete skeleton of which hominin species?
A. Australopithecus afarensis B. Homo erectus C. Australopithecus africanus D. Australopithecus boisei E. Homo habilis
Which of the following factors may have contributed to the decline of the earliest city-states in Mesopotamia?
A) drought B) salinization C) overpopulation D) flooding