Author Question: Which of the following is NOT true about ethnoarchaeologists? a. They link human behavior with ... (Read 94 times)

Marty · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Which of the following is NOT true about ethnoarchaeologists?

a. They link human behavior with archaeologically observable remains.
b. They study living societies in order to infer past behavior.
c. Binford proved that it cannot be used infer the behavior of Paleolithic peoples.
d. They observe material remains, features, and artifacts in their systemic behavioral contexts.
e. Wanting to know about behaviors in the archaeological record, archaeologists look for an ethnographic situation in which to similar behavior and study its material consequences.

Question 2

Analogy is one way to reconstruct the past

a. but its utility is limited to relatively low-level inferences or to societies with very close cultural and geographic counterparts.
b. that has unlimited potential for use as more middle-level research is conducted.
c. but its utility is limited to explaining how cultures adapted to environmental change.
d. that can reliably provide an unambiguous explanation of cultural behavior.
e. that is not applicable to middle-level research.