The proposition that increased aridity in the Near East at the end of the Ice Age led to the development of domestication around permanent water sources is known as the
a. Water storage model
b. Oasis theory
c. Neolithic revolution
d. Dry zone model
e. Marginal Zone model
b
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The Plains Indian vision quest is best classified as a(n):
a. ecclesiastical cult. b. individualistic cult. c. shamanistic cult. d. civil religion. e. secular religion.
Like bifurcate merging kinship terminology, generational kinship terminology
A. uses the same term for parents and grandparents, so there is less lumping than in the bifurcate merging kinship system. B. is common in North America. C. uses the same term for parents and their siblings, but lumping is more complete (there are only two terms for the parental generation). D. makes sense only from the perspective of ego. E. illustrates the complicated ways in which adults confuse their children about the realities of biology.