Question

1. Ethnographic data from a variety of societies around the world has shown that when pottery is made by hand, it is usually made by women, but when pottery is made on a wheel is it usually made by men.

True or False

2. 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 patrilineal.

True or False

3. 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 Moundville society was ranked, most likely a chiefdom.

True or False

4. Analyses of burial populations from Mississippian sites indicate that men ate more meat than women, and that high status men ate more meat than low status mean.

True or False

5. Mary Douglas, a symbolic anthropologist, has argued that food taboos such as those that prohibit the consumption of pork exist because prohibited animals are those that violate cultural ideas about the order of creation.

True or False

6. The Chavin culture of the central Andes is considered the first Andean civilization because of its stratified social and political organization and its monumental achievements in metallurgy, weaving, irrigation systems, and stone sculpture.

True or False

Answer 1

Question – 1:

TRUE

No explanation required. Theory based question which is theoretically correct.

Pottery was usually made by women in hand and in wheel by men.

Question – 2:

FALSE

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 Matrilineal

Queston – 3:

TRUE

Theory based question. no explanation required.

Question – 4:

TRUE

Theory based question. no explanation required.

Question – 5:

FALSE

Theory based question. no explanation required. they prohibited certain animal flesh (not prohibited all)

Question – 6:

TRUE

Theory based question. no explanation required.

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