What is the purpose of using the ethnographic method as a research approach?
a) To try to see the world as others do in order to understand and describe these different views.
b) To measure one’s personal values against other values.
c) To question the beliefs of the society being studied.
d) To ask embarrassing questions about other cultures.
ANS: A
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The Monte Verde archaeological site in south-central Chile dates to at least 1,500 years before the Clovis people (which date to 13,250 B.P.). This evidence for the early occupation of southern South America, along with other lines of evidence, suggests that
A. the first migration of humans into the Americas may date back 18,000 years. B. the Clovis tradition, a sophisticated stone technology based on a sharp point fastened to the end of a hunting spear, was crucial for migration into South America. C. the first migration of humans into the Americas made it there from Asia by crossing the Pacific in reed boats. D. Paranthropus boisei successfully made it to the Americas. E. the Clovis people were the first humans into South America.
Through the use of new, refined dating techniques, fossil teeth found in England and Italy indicate that modern humans reached Europe by 45,000 years ago. Currently, these fossils are the oldest dated modern human specimens in Europe. The new dates
A. allow more time for anatomically modern humans to have been in contact with Neandertals. B. confirm that Neandertals taught modern humans how to make stone tools. C. suggest modern humans followed Neandertal migration routes. D. call into question the dates of modern human specimens from Romania. E. suggest anatomically modern humans planned for the extinction of the Neandertal.