What Event Was a Major Turning Point in Better Understanding

question 19

Multiple Choice

What event was a major turning point in better understanding the subsistence roles of men and women in early human societies?

• A)The development of experimental archaeology that allowed paleoanthropology to test more than one theory at a time
• B)The ability of male paleoanthropologists to recreate examples of early human foraging lifestyles and gather evidence of different gender roles
• C)The work of cultural anthropologists in studying modern foragers and projecting ethnographic analogies back onto our early foraging beginnings
• D)The development of female physical anthropologists who introduced a more balanced perspective into the scientific record
• E)The introduction of new forms of data collection that allowed scientists to find actual evidence of female foraging abilities in the fossil record

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