When did modern humans arrive in the New World and in Australia? How did they get to these areas?
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The anthropologist Dee Mack Williams, in studying herding practices among pastoralists in Inner Mongolia, found that
A) with the use of irrigation to create new pasture land, the sand dunes were disappearing. B) the herders always avoided sand dunes when herding their flocks, because sand dunes did not provide pasture. C) since his observations were made in a specific local environment, the conclusions were not useful to other scholars concerned with livestock production. D) the herders valued sand dunes as shelters when attacked by raiders. E) the herders valued the sand dunes in their environment because, among other things, the dunes helped to regulate the body temperature of their animals.
According to Flannery (1999), only ranked societies that have undergone a loss of village autonomy
A. can effectively organize into productive states with law-abiding citizens. B. should be called chiefdoms. C. suffer the consequences of extreme social stratification. D. inevitably lead to state formation. E. experience intervillage warfare.
The Moso of China practice a form of “visitation” as marriage and do not have formal marriage rituals
a. True b. False
Which of the following is NOT one of the main hypotheses regarding the evolution of primates?
A. the visual adaptation hypothesis B. the angiosperm radiation hypothesis C. the arboreal hypothesis D. the foraging hypothesis