ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Ethnoarchaeology, Natural Selection, Kennewick Man
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Homo erectus fossils have been found in africa, asia, and europe. Which of the following is not an accurate statement? the switch from food foraging to food production allowed people to work less in subsistence pursuits. Which of the following is not a characteristic of band-level hunter-gatherer societies high population density. Plant domestication occurred in north america by 10,000 years ago and included important cereal grains such as wheat, barley, and oats. Cultural relativism one should suspend judgement of other people"s practices in order to understand those practices on their own terms. A way of continually viewing and judging other cultures in relation to one"s own. Process by which culture is learned begging at birth (if not in utero) In the beginning it wasn"t weird for anthropologist to: Study linguistic patterns, and -study the intricacies of social and political systems. Archeology: uses remains to distinguish cultural variation in the past. Cultural: patterns of behavior and thought within socities.
