While prehistory was largely ignored in Germany prior to Hitler's rise to power, archaeological research flourished under Hitler's control. Nazi archaeology
a. provided Europe with some of the best archaeological research that had ever been done, using cutting edge methods and sound scientific principles.
b. found evidence that Germanic people had emanated from a northern European core area, carrying with them all the major cultural achievements that then spread to the less civilized peoples of Europe.
c. was used to support claims for Aryan superiority, in spite of the fact that no such evidence existed.
d. found evidence of Aryan kings in locations as far away as Tibet and Iceland, thus proving the cultural and biological superiority of Germanic peoples.
e. is practiced today in the Americas.
c
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________ is/are NOT culturally constructed.
A. Sexual norms B. Race C. Kinship D. Sex E. Gender
The Lakota performed vision quests in which men would lie for days on a mountaintop until starvation, dehydration, and exposure brought about visions, used to communicate with the supernatural world
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
________ is known from fossils representing more than 50 individuals from at least three sites in South Africa.
A. Paranthropus aethiopicus B. Australopithecus africanus C. Australopithecus garhi D. Paranthropus boisei
To help resolve problems of global structural violence, which of the following values and cultural motivations would not be needed?
a. A xenophobic policy that would work to help countries seal their national borders and begin to work to improve the lives of their citizenry only. b. A worldview that sees humanity as part of the natural world, rather than superior to it. c. A sense of social responsibility that recognizes that no individual, people, or state has the right to expropriate resources at the expense of others. d. An awareness of how important supportive ties are for individuals, such as seen in kinship or other associations in the world’s traditional societies. e. A sense of value for the natural resources that humans have harnessed for millennia in order to survive.