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Modern anthropological studies of subsistence systems draw on insights and perspectives from all of the following fields EXCEPT:

According to Geertz, culture should not be seen as something “locked inside people’s heads and instead should be viewed as __________.

This student of Franz Boas contributed significantly to the nature versus nurture debate with groundbreaking research captured in Coming of Age in Samoa.

Cahokia collapsed due to __________.

Researchers from the United States and Germany have argued that the common ancestor of Neandertal and modern humans existed about _________ years ago.

Y chromosome evidence traces descent only from __________.

Which of the following is not a theory about what happened to the Neandertals?

The only source of change for mitochondrial DNA is random mutation, which is thought to occur at the rate of __________.

The average size of the brain of Homo sapiens is _________ cc.

Many of the excavated home sites from the Middle Paleolithic in Europe and the Near East are located in __________.