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Most archaeologists today:
 
  a. Subscribe to the extreme postmodern idea that we cannot know anything true about the past.
  b. Search for cultural and behavioral universals in the processual tradition.
  c. Conduct their research for largely political purposes, seeking to fulfill a political agenda.
  d. Adhere to some form of scientific inquiry as a way to evaluate ideas about what happened in the past.
  e. Accept universal explanations for what happened in the past.

Question 2

Anthropologist Richard Wilk showed that the different explanations for the Maya's collapse were:
 
  a. Incorrect because the archaeologists were culturally biased.
  b. Relevant because the contemporary Maya he studied retained the same cultural system.
  c. Linked to the larger cultural and political contexts of the archaeologists studying them.
  d. Recorded on the numerous stelae the Maya erected.
  e. Due to constant erosion of monuments and jungle growth.



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Heffejeff

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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c




debasdf

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Reply 2 on: Jul 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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