The analysis of past ritual behavior is archaeology's major contribution to the study of religion because
a. while all prehistoric cultures participated in ritual activities, many prehistoric cultures did not have religion.
b. rituals are behavioral acts that often entail material culture and that therefore can be represented in the archaeological record.
c. most archaeologists agree that prehistoric religion cannot be studied because it is archaeologically invisible; it is therefore a waste of time, energy, and money to attempt such a study.
d. they are acts that do not attempt to intercede with the supernatural.
e. rituals do not effect acts or gestures that interfere with religious behaviors.
Question 2
A society's mechanism for relating supernatural phenomena to the everyday world, and enlisting supernatural powers to achieve or prevent transformations of state in humans and nature, is
a. religion.
b. ritual.
c. cosmology.
d. sympathetic magic.
e. symbols.
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