Under what conditions do we expect to find foragers defending their territory?

What will be an ideal response?


Foragers tend to defend territory where resources are abundant and people move very little.

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The process by which an individual learns how to behave within a particular society is known as __________

A. cognition B. cultural relativism C. cultural adaptation D. enculturation

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Polyandry is:

a) a man having more than one wife at a time b) a woman having more than one husband at a time c) both marriage partners having multiple spouses d) a same-sex marriage between two men e) an arranged marriage in which families are in different social castes (or classes)

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Self-help systems are also called:

a. informal systems. b. ad hoc systems. c. unofficial systems. d. private systems.

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Why is an understanding of space-time systematics a crucial first step in understanding why people did what they did in the past?

a. Space-time systematics automatically explains why prehistory took the course that it did; in other words, explanatory hypotheses are built into space-time systematics. b. Research questions generated by space-time systematics are easily answered because the necessary data have already been collected. c. It is impossible to understand why cultures change without first documenting how and when material culture changed over time. d. Different regions in a culture area change in lockstep with one another, so knowing the appearance in one area determines the appearance in another. e. Archaeological cultures are ethnographic cultures.

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