quiz 2 questions Flashcards
Radio Carbon has a half-life of:
5, 730 Years
For Something to be cultural, It’s must be:
learned and commonly shared
Evidence for culture (including pits, a post hole, care for individuals who were diseased, elderly, and injured; and deliberate burials) has been associated with:
Neanderthals
Oldowan tools can be described as
Thin, symmetrical tools made by striking off flakes on alternating sides with a variety of stone, bone, and antler tools
________ are associated with the earliest human culture to have existed in the _______
Clovis Points, America
Name the following that are part of the genus Paranthropus
Aethiopicus
Boisei
Robustus
Satellite imagine or aerial photographs are best used to find evidence of:
Large scale features or monuments
Characteristics of anatomically modern humans
Lightly built post-cranial skeleton
Tiny or nonexistent brow ridges
A “Globular” brain case
The earliest evidence for goat and cattle herding is about
11,000 years ago
Cultural borrowing that produces something new, drawing attention ot the positive processes of cultural creativity, is known as:
Cultural hybridity
What term is defined as understanding another culture in its own terms sympathetically enough so that the culture appears to be a coherent and meaningful design for living?
Cultural relativism
Which of the following refers to the process by which humans living with one another must learn to come to terms with the ways of thinking and feeling considered appropriate in their respective cultutres?
Enculturation
The advantages of cooking food include which of the following?
Killing of parasites in food
An increase in nutrients extracted from the food
A more effecient way to preserve food
When did the first Homo Species emerge
2.4-1.5 MYA
Which of the following are behaviours that do not need to be explained to members of one’s own culture? They are symbolic.
Collective Understandings
