Why Has Peter Peregrine (Lawrence University) Suggested That Chacoan Pueblo

question 37

Multiple Choice

Why has Peter Peregrine (Lawrence University) suggested that Chacoan pueblo society practiced matrilocal residence?

• A) The small size of Chacoan pueblos (<60 square meters) lies within the size limits of ethnographically documented matrilocal residences.
• B) The side-by-side spatial arrangement of pueblo rooms reflects social solidarity, which ethnographic data suggest is characteristic of matrilocal residence.
• C) Bioarchaeological analysis of Chacoan burial populations has shown that females are more genetically similar to each other than are males; this means that females stayed in their village of origin while males migrated from elsewhere.
• D) All of the answers are correct.

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