A) recognized by their cultural group as a third gender. B) men who chose to live as women, performing women's traditional roles. C) also known as "two-spirits" in some Plains Indian societies. D) All of the answers are correct. A) recognized by their cultural group as a third gender. B) men who chose to live as women, performing women's traditional roles. C) also known as "two-spirits" in some Plains Indian societies. D) All of the answers are correct.

Exam 11: Reconstructing Social And Political Systems Of The Past

The current sourcing method used to fingerprint obsidian, and used by Richard Hughes to verify James Griffin's determination that obsidian in the Ohio Hopewell mounds had come from Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone National Park some 2400 kilometers away is:

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Question 21

With patrilocal residence, commonly associated with patrilineal descent a newly married couple lives in the:

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Question 22

If a person goes to the natural source area of a raw material and either extracts the material him- or herself or trades for it or for finished products, he or she is engaging in:

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Question 23

Status refers to the rights, duties, and privileges that define the nature of interpersonal relations.

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Question 24

Berdaches were:

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Question 25

Physical, face to face associations of people are referred to by archeologists as

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Question 26

We know much about what Maya hieroglyphs mean because

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Question 27

Members of the Tahitian villages were organized into competing chiefdoms ruled by a "sacred chief." Below the "sacred chiefs" were

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Question 28

If you call your father's brother's offspring "brother" and "sister" instead of "cousin", and you call your mother's sister's offspring "cousin", you most likely belong to a matrilineage.

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Question 29

A technique used to determine the source of pottery by identifying the trace element composition of the clay or temper used to manufacture the pot is:

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Question 30

Roughly what percent of professional archaeologists today are women?

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Question 31

In order to infer ancient social and political organization, it is important to remember that material culture reflects symbolic meaning as well as functional behaviors.

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Question 32

Which of the following sourcing studies are not used to demonstrate the geographic scale of an economic and/or political organization?

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Question 33

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:

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Question 34

The differential participation of males and females in the various social, economic, political, and religious institutions of a group is termed

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Question 35

Petrographic and instrumental neutron activation analysis conducted on Micronesian pottery determined which of the following?

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Question 36

Why has Peter Peregrine (Lawrence University) suggested that Chacoan pueblo society practiced matrilocal residence?

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Question 37

Matrilineal societies are extremely common, making up roughly 75% of the world's societies today; archaeologists also believe they were very common in the past.

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Question 38

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?

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That material culture reflects symbolic meanings as well as functional behaviors makes

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The current sourcing method used to fingerprint obsidian, and used by Richard Hughes to verify James Griffin's determination that obsidian in the Ohio Hopewell mounds had come from Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone National Park some 2400 kilometers away is:

With patrilocal residence, commonly associated with patrilineal descent a newly married couple lives in the:

If a person goes to the natural source area of a raw material and either extracts the material him- or herself or trades for it or for finished products, he or she is engaging in:

Status refers to the rights, duties, and privileges that define the nature of interpersonal relations.

Berdaches were:

Physical, face to face associations of people are referred to by archeologists as

We know much about what Maya hieroglyphs mean because

Members of the Tahitian villages were organized into competing chiefdoms ruled by a "sacred chief." Below the "sacred chiefs" were

If you call your father's brother's offspring "brother" and "sister" instead of "cousin", and you call your mother's sister's offspring "cousin", you most likely belong to a matrilineage.

A technique used to determine the source of pottery by identifying the trace element composition of the clay or temper used to manufacture the pot is:

Roughly what percent of professional archaeologists today are women?

In order to infer ancient social and political organization, it is important to remember that material culture reflects symbolic meaning as well as functional behaviors.

Which of the following sourcing studies are not used to demonstrate the geographic scale of an economic and/or political organization?

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:

The differential participation of males and females in the various social, economic, political, and religious institutions of a group is termed

Petrographic and instrumental neutron activation analysis conducted on Micronesian pottery determined which of the following?

Why has Peter Peregrine (Lawrence University) suggested that Chacoan pueblo society practiced matrilocal residence?

Matrilineal societies are extremely common, making up roughly 75% of the world's societies today; archaeologists also believe they were very common in the past.

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?

That material culture reflects symbolic meanings as well as functional behaviors makes

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