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Redwolflake15 · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Why is an understanding of space-time systematics a crucial first step in understanding why people did what they did in the past?

a. Space-time systematics automatically explains why prehistory took the course that it did; in other words, explanatory hypotheses are built into space-time systematics.
b. Research questions generated by space-time systematics are easily answered because the necessary data have already been collected.
c. It is impossible to understand why cultures change without first documenting how and when material culture changed over time.
d. Different regions in a culture area change in lockstep with one another, so knowing the appearance in one area determines the appearance in another.
e. Archaeological cultures are ethnographic cultures.

Question 2

If the frequencies of morphological types change significantly through time, and can be demonstrated to be restricted in time, the morphological types can be also be useful as

a. evidence of migration and subsequent population replacement.
b. evidence of a shift in ancient peoples' mental templates..
c. temporal types.
d. functional types.
e. time-space attributes