Which of the following would be best suited to the carbon-14 dating technique?
a. materials more than 100,000 years old
b. volcanic rock
c. sedimentary rock
d. metals
e. certain organic materials less than 75,000 years old
e
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Acheulean tools date to approximately __________ years ago
a. 1.8 million b. 1.6 million c. 1 million d. 600,000
Which of the following statements is not an example of linguistic nationalism?
a. You are a Spanish-speaking person in the U.S., but want your children to use English so they will fit in more easily with the surrounding society. b. A national committee in France declares that certain widely used terms will no longer be allowed to appear in public print because they are not French. c. You live in Scotland and are so alarmed by the rapid decline in the number of people speaking Gaelic that you start a school in which all subjects are taught in Gaelic. d. The southern part of India declares itself a separate country called Tamiland (the land of the people who speak Tamil) in defiance of India’s declaration of Hindi as the national language e. A country previously colonized by the British passes a law requiring everyone to speak the native tongue? English is banned because of its association with colonial domination.
The most frequent cause of ethnogenesis is
a. when members of two or more ethnic groups fuse into a new ethnic group. b. when a portion of an existing ethnic group splits away and forms a new group. c. ethnic cleansing and ethnic conflict more generally. d. when a group has its land taken away from them.
Fraternity male-bonding is often achieved through the abuse of women
Indicate whether the statement is true or false