Early plantation archaeology (prior to the 1960s) was primarily aimed at
a. architectural reconstruction, emphasizing the grandeur of the antebellum way of life.
b. verifying the written records of the time.
c. uncovering information about aspects of slave life that written records from the time did not address.
d. dispelling the "melting pot" perspective of American history.
e. validating the importance of slavery.
a
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a. friendliness b. homogeneity c. heterogeneity d. class consciousness
Some Neandertal physical characteristics may have arisen as adaptations to a ______ environment
a. humid b. hot c. cold d. tropical e. high altitude
Human rights are seen as inalienable. This means that
A. they are vested in groups and not individuals. B. no one can abuse them. C. anthropologists have no moral grounds to question them. D. nations cannot abridge or terminate them. E. they are universally accepted by all individuals.
Which of the following is a prediction of the multiregional models for the origins of modern humans?
a. a single evolving lineage of H. sapiens in each region of the Old World b. regional H. erectus characteristics appearing in local H. sapiens populations c. regional archaeological links between H. erectus and H. sapiens populations d. all of these