Anthropology 101 Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Key Concepts

3/7/24, 12:50 AM Anthropology 101 | Quizlet https://quizlet.com/115573135/test?funnelUUID=74f3c3e9-cc26-4633-a1fc-d5544203089e 1/7 Name: Score: 20 Multiple choice questions Term In general, societies with the patrilineal-patrilocal complex are characterized by all of the following except Whether Neanderthals were ancestral to AMHs in Europe inheritance of land and prestige through female lines. An organism's ability to survive and reproduce Upper Paleolithic toolmaking traditions. 1 of 20 Term Which of the following statements about agriculturalists is true? Domesticated plants lack natural seed dispersal mechanisms. Genetic transmission They use their land intensively and continuously. Forced assimilation. 2 of 20 Term What are the two major components of fieldwork in archaeological anthropology? Systematic survey and excavation Terrestrial primates Some kind of family Slash-and-burn techniques 3 of 20

3/7/24, 12:50 AM Anthropology 101 | Quizlet https://quizlet.com/115573135/test?funnelUUID=74f3c3e9-cc26-4633-a1fc-d5544203089e 2/7 Term What is the term for our contemporary world in flux, with people on the move, in which established canons, categories, distinctions, and boundaries are breaking down? Climate Change Postmodernity Animism Writing 4 of 20 Term The American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics is designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations to the field of anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research, and to society in general. Daughter languages a revitalization movement forced assimilation. 5 of 20 Term Which of the following statements about leaders in foraging bands is true? There is no such thing as the "noble savage." Conservationism is at odds with the basic mindset of most humans, including hunter-gatherers. Wealthy burials of young children Divorce is unique to industrialized nation-states. They have no means of forcing people to follow their decisions. 6 of 20

3/7/24, 12:50 AM Anthropology 101 | Quizlet https://quizlet.com/115573135/test?funnelUUID=74f3c3e9-cc26-4633-a1fc-d5544203089e 3/7 Term Evidence from the South American site of Monte Verde suggests that the Americas may have first been settled around 18,000 years ago. around 23,000 years ago. around 19,000 years ago. around 17,995 years ago. 7 of 20 Term The emergence of agriculture in at least seven different regions of the world is an example of Cultural adaptation Molar size has decreased. Genocide. Independent invention. 8 of 20 Term What does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis argue? The languages people speak influence the way they think. Domesticated plants lack natural seed dispersal mechanisms. Whether Neanderthals were ancestral to AMHs in Europe Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology 9 of 20

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3/7/24, 12:50 AM Anthropology 101 | Quizlet https://quizlet.com/115573135/test?funnelUUID=74f3c3e9-cc26-4633-a1fc-d5544203089e 4/7 Term What does the current debate about Neanderthals' relation to anatomically modern humans (AMHs) focus on? They use their land intensively and continuously. Human groups differ in their capacities for culture. Whether Neanderthals were ancestral to AMHs in Europe Systematic survey and excavation 10 of 20 Term Kottak argues that the relatively high incidence of expanded family households among poorer North Americans is Ecological anthropology A mutation in the FOXP2 gene genetic transmission an adaptation to poverty. 11 of 20 Term Which of the following statements about culture is not true? Human groups differ in their capacities for culture. The incest taboo does not eliminate incest. Social races are groups assumed to have a biological basis but actually are defined in a culturally arbitrary manner. They lack hereditary inequality. 12 of 20

3/7/24, 12:50 AM Anthropology 101 | Quizlet https://quizlet.com/115573135/test?funnelUUID=74f3c3e9-cc26-4633-a1fc-d5544203089e 5/7 Term Which of the following features do humans not share with other primates? Cultural imperialism Gender-based division of labor They are fixed. Habitual, obligatory bipedalism 13 of 20 Term Which of the following statements concerning the Basseri and the Qashqai is true? Food was very limited. Mealy-meal was the food most consumed, and there was very little sharing between individuals of any resource. It is a cultural adaptation to mobility associated with male travel for trade, commerce, and warfare. The Qashqai authority structure was more complex and hierarchical than that of the Basseri. There is no such thing as the "noble savage." Conservationism is at odds with the basic mindset of most humans, including hunter-gatherers. 14 of 20 Term What was the major hominin group that lived from about 4 million to 1 million years ago? Neolithic Authority Phonemes Australopithecus 15 of 20

3/7/24, 12:50 AM Anthropology 101 | Quizlet https://quizlet.com/115573135/test?funnelUUID=74f3c3e9-cc26-4633-a1fc-d5544203089e 6/7 Term What term refers to the arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences? Plural Society Syntax Phonemes Ethnocide 16 of 20 Term The term alienation is used to describe what phenomenon in industrial economies? The study of hominid evolution and human life as revealed by the fossil record They use their land intensively and continuously. seeking to explain why specific biological variations occur. The separation of workers from the things they produce 17 of 20 Term Why was animal domestication less important in the New World than it was in the Old World? The separation of workers from the things they produce The large-game animals that were hunted during earlier periods either had gone extinct or were not domesticable. The argument that behavior in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture States were the by-products of the organizational requirements of large irrigation systems. 18 of 20

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3/7/24, 12:50 AM Anthropology 101 | Quizlet https://quizlet.com/115573135/test?funnelUUID=74f3c3e9-cc26-4633-a1fc-d5544203089e 7/7 Privacy Terms Term Which of the following is an archaeological marker of ascribed status? Wealthy burials of young children They are fixed. Olympian religion Some kind of family 19 of 20 Term Horticulture makes intensive use of adaptation none of the factors of production enculturation. Calls demonstrate linguistic productivity. 20 of 20 English (USA)

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