Most anthropologists presently distinguish human culture from the proto-culture of apes because they lack
A) behavioral and technological differences between populations
B) symbolic transmission of behaviors between individuals
C) evidence of learned behavior patterns
D) speech communication
E) even rudimentary technology
B
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Émile Durkheim's focus on social facts illustrates what assumption shared by many anthropologists?
A. Social fact, just like any other fact, can be studied objectively. B. Culture is more of an idea in people's heads than a social reality. C. Culture is primarily a psychological and individual phenomenon. D. Social phenomena studied by anthropologists require study methods that are different from those used by other social scientists. E. Psychologists study individuals, but anthropologists study individuals as representative of something more: a collective phenomenon that is more than the sum of its parts.
Which of the following techniques was used by NASA in the 1980s to help identify the vast network of Chacoan roads in the southwestern United States?
a. ground penetrating radar b. soil resistivity c. thermal infrared multispectral scanning (TIMS) d. shovel testing e. ground-penetrating radar.
How many years ago do archaeologists believe that humans began to consistently bury their dead?
a. 6,000 b. 15,000 c. 72,000 d. 100,000 e. 3,000,000