Exam 7: Patterns-Of-Subsistence

The development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by people whose ancestral cultures were already rather alike is called:

The development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by people whose ancestry was otherwise distinct is called parallel evolution.

The process organisms undergo to achieve a beneficial adjustment to a particular environment,which not only leads to biological changes in the organisms but also impacts their environment,is called:

Which of the following statements about the Bakhtiari khans is not correct?

Among the Tsembaga of Papua New Guinea,there is a relationship between the physical and social environments that involves ritual slaughter in order to re-establish harmony.What animal is slaughtered to reduce pressure on the local environments?

In anthropology,geographic regions where a number of societies have similar ways of life are known as:

One of the most significant characteristics of the food-producing way of life was the development of:

According to the original study,the Mekranoti Kayapo had to work hard to get enough produce from their gardens.

The Comanche and the Cheyenne were quite different culturally until they moved out onto the Great Plains and made use of the horse to hunt the buffalo and raid settled peoples.They then became more similar in cultural adaptations,a process called:

Food producers who specialize in animal husbandry,and who consider their way of life to be ideal and central to defining their identities,are called:

In what country do we find the Mekranoti?

Mass food production is a characteristic of which type of food production?

Which innovation is considered the beginning of the industrial revolution?

Among food foragers,social equality is marked in all of the following except:

All broad-chested individuals are adapted to the low oxygen levels of high altitude.

The extensive form of horticulture in which the natural vegetation is cut,the slash is subsequently burned,and crops then planted among the ashes is known as slash-and-burn cultivation.It is also called:

What was the primary goal of the Cusichaca Trust research and applied work in the Patacancha Valley of Peru?

The cultivation of crops using hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes is a type of farming called:

All of the following statements except one correctly describe food-foraging societies.Which is it?

Which of the following statements about Easter Island and the Rapanui is not correct?