Author Question: What is the primary problem with the man the hunter theory of human evolution from the 1960s and ... (Read 90 times)

james9437 · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

What is the primary problem with the man the hunter theory of human evolution from the 1960s and 70s?

a. The tools that early humans had were not effective in killing large-game animals.
b. In most contemporary cultures, women do the large-game hunting.
c. It diminishes or ignores the contributions that women have made to human evolution.
d. There were no animals that humans would have been capable of killing in Africa at the time of early human history.

Question 2

For several hundred years, Tikal was able to sustain its ever-growing population. Then the pressure for food and land reached a critical point, and population growth was halted. At the same time, warfare with other cities was becoming increasingly destructive. This is marked archaeologically by all of the following except:

a. by the advent of nutritional problems as evidenced by bones from burial.
b. by the construction of a system of defensive ditches and embankments.
c. by the construction of artificially raised fields in areas that were flooded each rainy season.
d. large, irrigation waterworks.
e. existence of abandoned houses on prime lands.