What are three social benefits of marriage?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: Benefits include the creation of fairly stable relationships between men and women that regulate sexual mating and reproduction, a mechanism for regulating the sexual division of labor, and the creation of a set of family relationships that provide for the material, educational, and emotional needs of children for a long period of time.

Anthropology & Archaeology

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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With the end of the Würm glacial period, human groups shifted their subsistence strategies to a broader spectrum of species that they exploited.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Anthropological archaeologists use relative dating to

A. superimpose motifs from one site onto designs found at another site. B. determine precise dates in numbers. C. locate sites during a systematic survey. D. create a relative chronology for the materials uncovered during excavation. E. overlay various maps of a site, producing a composite map.

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Nonviolence among the Semai is

a. a pattern of behavior. b. very rare. c. learned through teasing their children. d. seen in women but not in men.

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