Archaeology

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When Larsen used height estimates to track changes in the diets of people who lived on the St. ...

When Larsen used height estimates to track changes in the diets of people who lived on the St. Catherine's Island and the coast of Georgia, he found

a. males and females of the hunter-gatherer population were consistently sho

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Bioarchaeology is a speciality that straddles the fields of archaeology and human biology. ...

Bioarchaeology is a speciality that straddles the fields of archaeology and human biology.

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Bioarchaeologists can distinguish male from female skeletons, but only for adults, not young ...

Bioarchaeologists can distinguish male from female skeletons, but only for adults, not young children.

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The Stillwater Marsh people consumed a varied diet that probably went beyond their minimal ...

The Stillwater Marsh people consumed a varied diet that probably went beyond their minimal nutritional needs.

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Osteoarthritis can result from continuous mechanical stress on a joint throughout a lifetime. ...

Osteoarthritis can result from continuous mechanical stress on a joint throughout a lifetime.

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Dental caries are of no use in differentiating between agriculturalists and hunter-gatherer ...

Dental caries are of no use in differentiating between agriculturalists and hunter-gatherer populations.

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Quality of life or overall health in a burial population can be assessed by an individual's stature ...

Quality of life or overall health in a burial population can be assessed by an individual's stature because height is closely related to diet.

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You analyze the stable isotopes from an assemblage of human bones from Canada, and find a high ratio ...

You analyze the stable isotopes from an assemblage of human bones from Canada, and find a high ratio of Nitrogen-15 to Nitrogen-14 and a low ratio of Carbon-13 relative to Carbon-12 . You should conclude that these people ate a lot of corn and very l

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Frequencies of dental caries (cavities) are expected to be lower in hunter-gatherer populations than ...

Frequencies of dental caries (cavities) are expected to be lower in hunter-gatherer populations than in agricultural populations.

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The most definitive evidence of a pre-Clovis human presence in North America comes from coprolites. ...

The most definitive evidence of a pre-Clovis human presence in North America comes from coprolites.

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Paleopathology can reconstruct life expectancy at birth, the age profile of a population, and ...

Paleopathology can reconstruct life expectancy at birth, the age profile of a population, and patterns in the ages at death.

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Mortality profiles are charts that depict the various causes of death of a burial population. ...

Mortality profiles are charts that depict the various causes of death of a burial population.

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Collagen is the inorganic component of bone (True or false?)

Collagen is the inorganic component of bone.

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Some diseases, like leprosy, syphilis, and tuberculosis, leave distinctive lesions or other ...

Some diseases, like leprosy, syphilis, and tuberculosis, leave distinctive lesions or other characteristics on bone.

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Long bone cross-sections are portions of the skeletal remains that are analyzed to detect iron ...

Long bone cross-sections are portions of the skeletal remains that are analyzed to detect iron deficiency and malnutrition.

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Anthropologists refer to the rules and structures that govern relations within a group of ...

Anthropologists refer to the rules and structures that govern relations within a group of interacting people as

a. residence patterns.
b. social organization.
c. residence rules
d. kinship

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Political organization can be defined as

Political organization can be defined as

a. the culturally prescribed behavior associated with men and women which can vary from society to society.
b. the rules and structures that govern relations within a group

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If you live in a society in which two or more local groups are organized under a single highly ...

If you live in a society in which two or more local groups are organized under a single highly ranked individual, you live in a(n)

a. egalitarian society,
b. patrilineal society.
c. chiefdom.
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6 years ago

Margaret Conkey and Janet Spector pointed out which of the following biases in archaeology?

Margaret Conkey and Janet Spector pointed out which of the following biases in archaeology?

a. The fact that plant remains are rarely preserved at archaeological sites while animal bones and stone tools are often abundant, le

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6 years ago

Among Plains Indian societies, Berdaches were not

Among Plains Indian societies, Berdaches were not

a. recognized by their cultural group as a third gender.
b. men who chose to live as women.
c. also known as two-spirits in some Plains Indian societi

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The difference between gender roles and gender ideologies is

The difference between gender roles and gender ideologies is

a. gender roles are the culturally prescribed behaviors associated with men and women, while gender ideologies are the culturally prescribed values assigned to the

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William Webb (1882-1964) excavated hundreds of burials at the Indian Knoll site in western Kentucky. ...

William Webb (1882-1964) excavated hundreds of burials at the Indian Knoll site in western Kentucky. How did Webb explain the presence of hunting weapons in the graves of women and children at the site?

a. Women and children

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Roughly what percent of professional archaeologists today are women?

Roughly what percent of professional archaeologists today are women?

a. 2
b. 10
c. 25
d. 50
e. 65

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Ethnographic data from a variety of societies around the world has shown which of the following ...

Ethnographic data from a variety of societies around the world has shown which of the following about men's and women's roles in ceramic manufacture?

a. When pottery is made by hand, it is usually made by women; when pottery

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The argument that females depicted in Classic Maya stelae occupied similar and complimentary roles ...

The argument that females depicted in Classic Maya stelae occupied similar and complimentary roles to those of males, and that these Maya stelae depict a prehistoric cargo system, is based on

a. translation of Maya hieroglyph

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The socially recognized network of relationships through which individuals are related to one ...

The socially recognized network of relationships through which individuals are related to one another by ties of descent (real or imagined) and marriage is called

a. a moiety.
b. a lineage.
c. kinship.

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If a biological father has little to do with his biological offspring, and instead spends most of ...

If a biological father has little to do with his biological offspring, and instead spends most of his time with his sister's children who call him by a term meaning father rather than uncle, the descent system of these people is most likely
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The standard kinship system in North America as well as in many other industrialized nations is ...

The standard kinship system in North America as well as in many other industrialized nations is

a. patrilineal descent.
b. matrilineal descent.
c. bilateral descent.
d. mostly patrilineal d

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A set of lineages that claims to share a distant, often-mythical ancestor is called a

A set of lineages that claims to share a distant, often-mythical ancestor is called a

a. moiety.
b. clan.
c. kinship system.
d. berdache.
e. patrilineages

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_________ of the world's' known societies are commonly associated with patrilineal descent.

_________ of the world's' known societies are commonly associated with patrilineal descent.

a. 10.
b. 25.
c. 50.
d. 60.
e. 65

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Clusters of residences among the Mikea people in Madagascar reflect

Clusters of residences among the Mikea people in Madagascar reflect

a. matrilineal descent groups, with clusters of families consisting of older women, sisters, and their husbands.
b. patrilineal descent groups, w

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Tribes of the U.S. Northwest Coast and Tahiti represent a social system in which positions of status ...

Tribes of the U.S. Northwest Coast and Tahiti represent a social system in which positions of status are limited, and thus where not everyone of talent may achieve high status or prestige, called a(n)

a. ranked society.

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An egalitarian society is not

An egalitarian society is not

a. a society in which people generally have equal access to critical, life-sustaining resources.
b. a society that contains roughly as many valued positions as there are persons capab

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The name of the cultural tradition that was widespread across much of the eastern United States from ...

The name of the cultural tradition that was widespread across much of the eastern United States from AD 800-1500, engaged in intensive village-based maize horticulture, and constructed earthen platform mounds is

a. Mississipp

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By assuming that the treatment of people in death reflects their status and roles in life, the data ...

By assuming that the treatment of people in death reflects their status and roles in life, the data from more than 3000 burials at Moundville indicates that

a. Moundville society was egalitarian.
b. Moundville soc

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Analyses of burial populations from Mississippian sites indicate all of the following except

Analyses of burial populations from Mississippian sites indicate all of the following except

a. clear status differences among men and women, as well as among classes, reflected by types and abundance of grave goods.
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If a person goes to the natural source area of a raw material and either extracts the material ...

If a person goes to the natural source area of a raw material and either extracts the material himself or herself, or trades for it or for finished products, he or she is engaging in what archaeologists refer to as

a. direct

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The cultural tradition that is found primarily in the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries dating ...

The cultural tradition that is found primarily in the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries dating between 2200-1600 BP, that constructed geometric earthworks and effigy mounds, and that is known for its elaborate mortuary rituals is

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The fact that material culture reflects symbolic meanings as well as functional behaviors means ...

The fact that material culture reflects symbolic meanings as well as functional behaviors means

a. the symbolic meanings of artifacts are easily inferred by understanding their function in a culture.
b. it can be

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