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32 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is a list of New World domesticates?
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Dog, tomatoes, guinea pig, sweet potatoes
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In Archaic Mesoamerica there were communities of two different sizes:
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microbands and macrobands.
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What is the "Culture Readiness Theory"? Who is it associated with?
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It is associated with Robert Braidwood. The theory says that food production developed when people had accumulated enough information about their environment.
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Where did the earliest states emerge? How long ago?
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Mesopotamia, 5,500 years ago
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Which of the following is NOT a consequence of state formation experienced by the people who live in state societies?
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A decrease of social stratification
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Which of the following perspectives enhances cross-cultural understanding?
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Cultural relativism
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The cultural characteristics of societies in or derived from Europe is
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Western culture.
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One of the main characteristics of culture is that it:
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is always changing.
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A set of sounds that make a difference in language.
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phoneme
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When we say that a communication is ________, we mean at least two things. First, the communication has meaning even when the referent is not there, and second, the meaning is arbitrary.
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symbolic
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Recently some archaeologists have returned to the idea that ________ played a role in the emergence of agriculture.
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climate change
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By "food collection," or "food foraging" anthropologists mean the obtaining of food from
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wild plants and animals.
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Which animals are least likely to be a source of food in a horticultural society?
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big game
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In general, which type of economic activity provides the most leisure time?
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food-collecting
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Of the following economic activities, which finds the individual ownership of land most important?
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intensive agriculture
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The shift to the production of food is called the ___________ revolution.
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Neolithic
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For the pre-contact New World what were two of the most important domesticated animals?
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The dog and the turkey.
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Of the following, what was NOT an early consequence of food production?
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Improving health
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According to information presented in class, the first known writing system was developed by the__________.
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Chinese
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Which of the following is NOT proposed as the reason for the development of the state?
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social stratification
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Where did the earliest states emerge? How long ago?
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Sumeria, 5500 years ago
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Which of the following terms could be described as "The belief that one's own way of life is
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ethnocentrism
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The attitude of cultural relativism
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encourages us to view a society's customs and ideas within the context of that society's problems and opportunities.
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that:
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Language is neutral to society. It is the society that forms the language.
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There is substantial scientific evidence to suggest that there is a structure in the brain that allows humans to be ready to learn language at birth. What is this structure called?
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language acquisition device
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Which of the following is considered paralanguage?
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laughing
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When people grow foods using hand tools in the absence of permanently cultivated fields we call
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horticulture
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The subsistence strategy that characterized most of human history was:
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food collection
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Which of the following is a characteristic of pastoralist societies?
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Dependency on trade with farmers
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Why do members of food collecting societies not own land individually?
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Land was an unknown commodity
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_________ is the accumulation of goods by a particular person, or in a particular place, for the purpose of
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. Redistribution
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Among pastoral nomads, wealth is usually measured in _______
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animals
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