Environmental approaches for explaining the origins of domestication argue that it represents a more intensive use of the environment caused by:
a. the inherent predisposition of humans to develop domestication in response to environmental triggers
b. society's ability to face increasing resource needs
c. the environmental changes that occurred at the end of the Pleistocene
d. people being unaware of other choices to lifestyles
e. grazing herbivores
b
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There were at least three independent centers of domestication in the New World.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Why might a culture attempt to cling to one language within its borders?
a. Language unity may bring cultural unity and solidarity, void of outside influence. b. Language learning can pose a threat to totalitarian governments. c. Language diversity may increase culture wars. d. Teaching multiple languages in a culture may be too challenging given the resources available to a given culture. e. All of these.
Cultural anthropology is composed of which two scholarly components?
a. Ethnography and ethnohistory b. Ethnography and ethnology c. Ethnology and ethnohistory d. Ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology e. Linguistics and ethnography
The Skh?l site in Israel is dated to approximately ________ years ago
a. 150,000 b. 75,000 c. 200,000 d. 115,000 e. 40,000