Define and explain the concept of carrying capacity
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
It is the maximum number of people a given society can support, given available resources.
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__________ are cultural practices designed to equalize access to food, resources, and social prestige through a community so that no one individual can amass greater wealth or greater prestige than other people
a. Reciprocal networks b. Social redistribution c. Behavioral norms d. Leveling mechanisms
Research at Shanidar Cave has established unequivocally that the Neanderthals grieved the loss of their dead by burying them with brightly colored flowers
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The oldest fossil representatives of anatomically modern humans come from:
A. Eurasia. B. Australia. C. the Americas. D. Africa.
Economic relationships are characteristically embedded in other relationships, such as kinship, in all of the following kinds of societies EXCEPT
A. pastoralists. B. states. C. foragers. D. chiefdoms. E. horticulturalists.