Research into ethnomedicine has indicated that __________
A. biomedicine is the only effective treatment for disease
B. all humans experience disease the same way
C. theories of how contagions are transmitted are consistent across cultures
D. concepts of illness and disease vary cross-culturally
Answer: D
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Experimental archaeologists have attempted to learn more about stone tools by doing all the following, EXCEPT:
a. replicating stone tool manufacturing methods. b. using stone tools to butcher an elephant. c. cutting down trees with stone axes. d. Observing ecological factors. e. traveling back in time.
In terms of energy consumption, the United States
A. ranks among the bottom in terms of per-capita consumption, but among the top energy-consumers among nations. B. ranks second among nations, but first in per-capita consumption. C. has seen rising levels of consumption. D. is first among nations in all categories of consumption. E. has seen dramatically declining levels of consumption.
Shanidar Cave is extraordinary in that one buried individual: a. had severe cranial trauma and loss of the use of the right limb and yet lived beyond these trauma, presumablyared for by others
b. is the only example of Neandertal remains found in Israel. c. is without the right lower arm and hand, demonstrating the results of poor preservation within the fossil record. d. lived to approximately 80 years of age. e. is known because of grave goods to be an ancient member of an extinct social group in Iraq.
Which of the following hominin species was the first to live outside of Africa and produce bifacially flaked tools?
A. Neandertal B. Australopithecus C. Homo habilis D. Homo erectus