Which of the following plants is NOT part of the basic triad of Mesoamerican plant food staples?
A. Chili peppers
B. Maize
C. Squashes
D. Beans
Answer: A
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What will be an ideal response?
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A. parallelism or convergence B. inheritance from a common ancestor C. transformation D. cladistics
According to Thomas and Kelly, cultural biases that affect the way that archaeologists investigate the world:
a. Can be overcome, leading to an understanding of the past that continually improves over time. b. Are insurmountable, meaning that we can never know whether our understanding of the past is improving through time. c. Do not exist; they are simply a construction of postmodernists used to undermine the authority of processual archaeology. d. Exist, but are never a problem when explicit scientific methods are employed to investigate prehistory. e. Are useful in science because they enable discussions among scientists.
Cultural life histories are __________
a. historical records on important people in an area b. long-term research programs that track a culture over many years c. biographies of individuals within a particular culture d. voices of people from all the different segments and groups that make up a society