Q1. In the article "Why humans are so smart-and so stressed out?", what does the author propose as an explanation for the long-term trend for human ancestors, from Australopithecus through various members of genus Homo, to develop larger and larger brains?
Q2. Drawing on the article from sapiens.org as well as our lectures, explain how the questions archaeologists ask changed between the early excavations at Sutton Hoo and more recent ones.
Q3. What is a cline? How can clines explain the sort of human biological differences that are sometimes explained through the idea of race?
Q4. Based on the film about the Natufian culture as well as our lecture, describe the sequence of events that seem to have led to the first instance of human domestication of plants.
Q5. Do you think that Richard Lee was being ethnocentric, in his reaction to the !Kung mocking his ox? Why or why not? What is ethnocentrism?
Q6. What aspect of language is studied in pragmatics? Why is pragmatics of particular interest to linguistic anthropologists?