The earliest Australopithecines were found in southern and western Africa
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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Writing never developed among the early states in Mesoamerica, so there is no reliable archaeological evidence of these states' histories.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Why does a big man accumulate wealth?
A. Big men are chiefs who are trying to make their achieved status more permanent by engaging in conspicuous symbolic displays of wealth. B. The term big man refers to the liminal state that a Kapauku youth enters before marriage, during which he accumulates wealth in order to fund the wedding and pay the brideprice. C. Big men typically are war leaders and as such they must maintain a supply of "grievance gifts" to compensate the families of warriors who die under their command. D. To become a big man, an individual must wear a tonowi shell necklace, which is imported from the coast and is therefore quite expensive by Kapauku standards. E. Big men do not keep the wealth they accumulate but rather redistribute it to create and maintain alliances with political supporters.
Which of the following undermines the traditional Tuareg women's status today?
A) The exposure the Tuareg have had to neighboring patrilineal societies B) The incorporation of the Tuareg into a larger nation-state society C) The family incorporation into a wage economy D) The migration of men to cities E) All of these undermine their status today.
Two important properties of all symbols are that their meanings are conventional and
a. iconic. b. arbitrary. c. religious. d. concrete.