Exam 11: Reconstructing Social And Political Systems Of The Past

If a biological father has little to do with his biological offspring, and instead spends most of his time with his sister's children who call him by a term meaning "father" rather than "uncle," the descent system of these people is most likely:

Archaeologists know that the pottery wheel is associated with

Schillaci and Stojanowski (University of New Mexico) argue from their analysis of the Pueblo Bonito burial population that the people of Pueblo Bonito practiced bilocal rather than matrilocal residence because:

In the reconstruction of social and political organizations archaeologists remember

Analyses of burial populations from Mississippian sites indicate:

An egalitarian society:

In general, bilateral descent is associated with industrialized nations; patrilineal descent is associated with a wide range of conditions such as hunting and gathering, agriculture, and pastoralism, as well as internal warfare; and matrilineal descent is associated with horticulture, long distance hunting, and warfare with distant enemies.

Political organization can be defined as:

The name of the cultural tradition that was widespread across much of the eastern United States from AD 800- 1500, engaged in intensive village-based maize horticulture, and constructed earthen platform mounds is:

Ethnographic analysis makes it clear that it is safe to assume that women in the past always made the pottery, and men always made the stone tools.

Anthropologists refer to the rules and structures that govern relations within a group of interacting people as:

The argument that females depicted in Classic Maya stelae occupied similar and complimentary roles to those of males, and that these Maya stelae depict a prehistoric cargo system, is based on: