At what point in the transition from Meolithic to Neolithic lifestyles did agricultural populations begin to show appreciable rise in mortality rates and decrease in health?
a. Advent of sedentism
b. Expansion of food supplies
c. Developing craft industries
d. Beginning house construction
e. Burial of the dead
a
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Cultural relativism requires that:
a. All cultures be seen as equally good. b. All cultures be seen as equally self-serving. c. All cultures be measured against our own. d. An individual must give up his/her culture in order to understand another culture. e. Values and customs be understood in terms of the culture of which they are a part.
Early settlers of North America are known to have migrated from Asia using the Bering Land Bridge.
a. True b. False
William Smith is noted for:
A. being the first geologist to recognize what a fossil was B. developing the concept of uniformitarianism C. finding the earliest known stone tools of human manufacture D. studying the strata of the earth and creating the first geologic map of England
Anthropologists study symbols because:
a. They can represent an entire constellation of ideas and emotions. b. They only hold meaning when in tactile form, such as a flag. c. They have single, unique meanings that are easily learned. d. They reflect the concerns of particular individuals in culture. e. They are highly complex and members of a culture are unable to understand them without help from anthropologists