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TFauchery

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A culture's understanding of how the world works, how it originated and developed, how the various parts fit together, what laws they obey and, especially, the place of humans in the natural and supernatural worlds is known as
 
  a. religion.
  b. cosmology.
  c. iconography.
  d. ritual
  e. science.

Question 2

Which of the following is a characteristic of symbols and their archaeological study?
 
  a. The same symbolic act can be made to carry enormous amounts of information, making it difficult for an outsider to know what a particular symbol means.
  b. There is a necessary link between an object and its symbolic meaning, making it necessary to be able to identify the object.
  c. Symbols are powerful, but they are not difficult to study archaeologically.
  d. It is not worthwhile to explore human behavior as a system of meanings, but rather as merely acts that meet material needs.
  e. Symbols are not studied archaeologically.


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orangecrush

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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a


TFauchery

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Reply 2 on: Jul 20, 2018
Excellent

mochi09

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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