Since their appearance some 5,000 years ago, states have proven to be stable political systems

a. True
b. False


ANSWER: False

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The Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania shows signs of human presence and:

A. appears to be older than the Folsom and Clovis sites B. if correctly dated, indicates that people were in the New World sometime before 16,000 B.P. C. if correctly dated, indicates that people were in the New World sometime before 115,000 B.P. D. appears to be older than the Folsom and Clovis sites and if correctly dated, indicates that people were in the New World sometime before 16,000 B.P. E. appears to be older than the Folsom and Clovis sites and if correctly dated, indicates that people were in the New World sometime before 115,000 B.P.

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Archaic Homo sapiens in the geographical area of southern Siberia are called:

a. Neandertals b. Floresiensis c. Denisovans d. Idaltu

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Evidence from Zhoukoudian suggests that Homo erectus

a. lived there continuously for over 250,000 years. b. were settled agriculturalists. c. intermittently occupied the area. d. built wooden structures. e. kept domesticated animals.

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Reflecting today's world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that

A. challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world. B. becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture. C. is increasingly multisited and multitimed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena. D. is more traditional, negating anthropologists' concerns about defending their field's roots. E. requires researchers to stay at the same site for more than three years.

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