Down-the-line trade a. results in the steady decline in the ...

[rl]

Down-the-line trade
 
  a. results in the steady decline in the frequency of artifacts made of a particular material as the distance increases from the source of the raw material.
  b. results in the steady increase in the frequency of artifacts made of a particular material as the distance increases from the source of the raw material.
  c. results in a high density of artifacts at long distances from trading centers.
  d. is when a raw material is procured by people close to its source.
  e. results in culture not produced locally from raw materials found locally.

Question 2

What method(s) did Vernon Knight use to help reconstruct Moundville's social organization?
 
  a. He analyzed exotic burial goods and reconstructed the trade routes people would have used to acquire the high status items.
  b. He analyzed the grave goods of commoners in order to ascertain what types of resources were available to them.
  c. He analyzed Moundville's layout and compared it to ethnographic data on Chickasaw kinship systems and residential patterns.
  d. He found ethnographic interviews in which the Chickasaw descendents of the Moundville culture described various aspects of their ancestors' social system.
  e. He used x-ray fluorescence (XRF) on the material remains.

[lauravaras]

Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

c

[rl]

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[sailorcrescent]

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