A Good Example of How Social Ranking Can Be Seen

question 9

Multiple Choice

A good example of how social ranking can be seen in the archaeological record,careful analysis of over 3000 burials at the site of Moundville in Alabama showed that the higher a person's rank was

• A)the farther he or she would be buried from the mound
• B)the lower the quality of his or her associated grave goods
• C)the more likely it would be that he or she would have been mummified
• D)the closer he or she would be buried to the mounds
• E)the more likely he or she would display cranial modification