The Moundbuilder Myth provides an example of:
a. How the social, cultural, and political context of archaeology can influence its theories.
b. The infallibility of science.
c. How more civilized cultures (the Moundbuilders) can be destroyed by less civilized cultures (the Native Americans).
d. How pseudoarchaeology can be useful to professional archaeologists.
e. How to provide ourselves with an innate sense of superiority and right to dispossess Native Americans today.
Question 2
The scientific method provides a powerful way to investigate the world around us because:
a. Unlike other more subjective methods, science can guarantee absolute truth.
b. Almost all researchers accept the infallibility of science, making research across different disciplines compatible.
c. Science is self-correcting; as more facts about the world become known, science is willing to reject flawed explanations in favor of better ones.
d. Science is not self-correcting, thus it is able to prove a theory rather quickly.
e. Everyone has always believed in science.
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