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1361	Radiocarbon dating can be used directly on which of these finds?	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Easy
1362	A charcoal sample has one-eighth of the C-14 found in living wood. Taking the half-life as 5730 years, its ap…	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Medium
1363	Archaeologists want the age of a volcanic ash layer lying just above early hominin fossils thought to be abou…	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Medium
1364	Which statement correctly distinguishes relative from absolute dating?	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Hard
1365	Pit dwellings and burials of dogs with humans are associated with which Neolithic site?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
1366	The Great Bath is a famous structure at	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
1367	An industry of pebble choppers and chopping tools in the Siwalik foothills of the north-west is named after t…	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
1368	Why were the houses at Burzahom built partly below ground level?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
1369	Which group of features best shows that Harappan cities were planned?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Hard
1370	A family consisting of a husband, wife and their unmarried children is called a	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
1371	Marriage of one woman to several men at the same time is called	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
1372	Among the Khasi, children take their clan name from their mother and property passes mainly through women. Th…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
1373	After the death of her husband, a woman marries his younger brother as expected by custom. This practice is k…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
1374	In a community, a person must marry within the same caste but outside his or her own clan. This combines	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Hard
1375	Who gave the classic definition of culture as a "complex whole" acquired by man as a member of society?	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
1376	Judging other cultures as inferior by the standards of one's own culture is called	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
1377	An anthropologist studying a food taboo explains it in terms of the community's own ecology and beliefs, with…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
1378	The potato, first domesticated in South America, became a common food in India without Indians and South Amer…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
1379	A tribal community living for decades beside a town adopts the town's dress, language and festivals while kee…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Hard
1380	Belief in spirits and souls, regarded by Tylor as the earliest form of religion, is called	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy