Question 1

Today the Washo tribe do all of the following EXCEPT

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A)  govern themselves and are federally recognized. 
B)  oversee natural resource conservation in their land. 
C)  rely on gathered foods as their dietary mainstay. 
D)  manage a resort at Lake Tahoe.

Question 2

Which foraging group relies most heavily on the gathering of wild plant foods?

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A)  Haida, North America 
B)  Mbuti, Africa 
C)  Caribou Inuit, North America 
D)  Dobe Ju/'hoansi, Africa

Question 3

Which of the following provides anthropologists with the earliest substantial archaeological evidence of tool making?

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A)  Projectile points 
B)  Tools from Olduvai 
C)  Tools from Gona 
D)  Fire hearths in Africa

Question 4

Defend the statement "Washo foragers eat a nutritionally balanced diet."

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Question 5

Describe the dietary changes of the Dobe Ju/'hoansi from 1964 to 1993.

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Question 6

List five features that are common to foragers.

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Question 7

The term ethnographic present means a society is

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A)  described as it is today. 
B)  studied through fieldwork. 
C)  described as when first described ethnographically. 
D)  studied using present day ethnographic methods.

Question 8

Describe how lives of the Ju/'hoansi people are different today than as first described ethnographically.

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Question 9

A society is called "egalitarian" when its members have equal access to

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A)  status, wealth and power within the same age group. 
B)  status and wealth. 
C)  status and power within the same kin group. 
D)  the same status through balanced reciprocity.

Question 10

Compare and contrast foragers in two different parts of the world with respect to technology, subsistence, division of labor, and systems of distribution.Cite specific examples to illustrate your discussion.

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Question 11

A societal type common in foraging groups and marked by egalitarian social structure and lack of specialization is a

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A)  band. 
B)  tribe. 
C)  chiefdom. 
D)  state.

Question 12

Foraging societies such as the Haida of the North Pacific Coast make the creation of evolutionary paradigms difficult because they don't meet all of the criteria of the model.In the case of the Haida, this is because they

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A)  are sedentary. 
B)  are partly horticulturalists 
C)  are nomadic for only half of the year. 
D)  hunt but don't forage.

Question 13

List and describe three dietary advantages of eating insects.

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Exam 5: Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation I: What Challenges Face Foragers