Khipus are made of:

A. corn.
B. obsidian.
C. knotted string.
D. pottery.


Answer: C

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How will a Diné person give his/her name when introducing him- or herself?

a. Mother’s clan, father’s clan, personal name b. Mother’s clan, personal name c. Father’s clan, mother’s clan, personal name d. Mother’s clan only

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The study of the relationships between social and linguistic variation is

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The hominins known collectively as the australopiths had at least eight species,

A. Au. anamensis, Au. afarensis, Au. kenyanthropus, Au. kadabba, Au. garhi, Au. robustus, Au. paranthropus, and Au. sediba. B. Au. sediba. Au. garhi, Au. africanus, Au. afarensis, Au. anamensis, Paranthropus robustus, Paranthropus boisei, and Paranthropus aethiopicus C. all discovered and named by the Leakey family. D. all discovered in Africa except Au. boisei. E. but only five of them have been confirmed to be bipedal, thus putting into question that all australopiths were hominins.

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