For Years, Archaeologists Talked About a Moment in Time When

question 18

Multiple Choice

For years, archaeologists talked about a moment in time when a non-Western society first came in contact with Europeans, such as when Captain James Cook landed on Tahiti in the South Pacific in 1769. This moment in time could be called a(n)

• A) colonial moment.
• B) transitional moment.
• C) ethnographic present.
• D) ethnographic past.

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