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Classic Period Mayan leaders kept careful track of their complex calendrical system in order to:

What is anti-paternalism?.  Sketch Mill’s argument for anti-paternalism.  Which of Mill’s premises do you think is most likely to be false?  Why? 

A digital computer uses _____ that represent data in the form of code.    

Western media reports and historical descriptions of the Battle of the Little Bighorn do not match the accounts provided by Indian eyewitnesses. Archaeological analysis of the distribution of bullets and shell casings across the battlefield:

The bureaucratic structure of heritage management in the United States including the National Register of Historic Places and the State Historic Preservation Offices, among others, was created by:

Stable isotopes are absorbed into human bone collagen through metabolic processes from the food and water consumed on a daily basis. Archaeologists extract bone collagen to study stable isotope ratios from populations in order to learn:

The study of the use of fish and other marine resources in the colonial settlement at St. Augustine, Florida, provided information on the diet and nutritional levels in the historical community as well as:

One of the more complicated aspects of complying with the rules of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act involves:

When archaeologists study the mortality profile of a burial population, they are seeking to understand social and cultural patterns in a community that structured health, disease, lifestyle, life expectancy, and age at death. This type of population level analysis is known as:

Briefly address (3-4 sentences) the following prompt: Explain the difference between an absolute and a prima facie principle. How should the Principle of Autonomy, for instance, be understood?  Why?