Archaeology Anthropology Flashcards

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NAGPRA
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Gender relations in band society tend to be
Egalitarian.
Sodalities
Special-purpose groupings that may be organized on the basis of age, sex, economic role, and personal interest
Characteristics of a state
A] possesses a territory [B] institutions to collect taxes [C] a stratified society
A conflict among scholars concerning domestication centers on
Whether people were aware of what they were doing in intervening in the gene pool of wild plants
. In bands, labor is usually divided by
Age and gender
In a rank society, a chief is given
Greater prestige than other people, but not greater power or wealth
Objects buried with a corpse are known as
Grave goods
Inka Empire differed from the earlier ChimĂș culture because it was based in
Rural villages
The culture in which the agricultural subsistence strategy expanded rapidly was the
PPNB
Constructions of a greater-than-human scale are examples of
Monumental architecture
The first evidence of the cultural tradition called the Natufian is found at about how many years before the present?
12,500
The period of Inca dominance is known as
Late Horizon
The characteristic form of social organization among foragers is the
Band
Sociocultural features that have been suggested as leading to the rise of social complexity include
Ineffective patterns of conflict resolution within the original social organization