Discuss the various hypotheses concerning the origin of food production.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Childe’s drastic climate change scenario
2. The Binford-Flannery model of recreating top foods in suboptimal environments
3. Cohen’s model of population pressure on a global scale
4. Resurgence of climate change models
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Neandertal art consists of
a. large painted depictions found in caves. b. elaborately carved full-sized sculptures. c. use of pigment and jewelry. d. "Venus" figurines. e. stylized architectural settlements.
Franz Boas believed that anthropologists
a. should develop theories using the written reports of missionaries, in particular. b. should avoid living with the people they study so as not to influence them. c. should gather more factual information about other cultures by conducting fieldwork. d. All of these are true of Boas.
What is one reason why cultural diffusion is a selective process?
A) The overt form of a trait may have a different meaning for the second culture. B) Cultures may only allow certain traits to be borrowed by other groups. C) Technological traits diffuse easily, while ideological traits are much harder to borrow. D) Diffusion is a slow process, so only a small fragment of cultural traits will be transmitted.
Bound morphemes convey meaning ________
a. only when sounds are combined b. by following cultural language rules c. because of the relationship between language and culture d. only when combined with another morpheme e. while standing alone