(Guided Notes) Elements of Culture

Which of the following best describes how culture is typically transmitted? (Where did you get your culture from?)

• Through government policies and laws

• it's passed randomly from strangers

• From parents to children (throughout generations)

• Only from what you read

Based on your notes, which of the following best describes the role of culture? (...just making sure you noticed that it is NOT asking "what is culture?")

• It is the clothing and art that a group of people create.

• It is the way a group of people passes down laws from parents to children.

• It is all the elements that contribute to a group's way of life, and it brings people together.

• It is a group's beliefs about religion and government.

According to the notes, what is the most likely reason why two different groups of early humans had different ways of making tools?

• They didn't have the same religious beliefs.

• One group was smarter than the other.

• They lived in different locations with different available resources.

• Their art was focused on different subjects.

If archaeologists find a new type of tool used by early Homo sapiens that is unlike any tool used today, what conclusion can they draw based on your notes?

• That early Homo sapiens were less intelligent because they made different tools.

• That the cultural behavior of toolmaking has changed over time.

• That this cultural behavior was not passed down to future generations.

• That they have discovered a cultural behavior that was lost.

According to your notes, what can an archaeologist learn by studying the tools used by early Homo sapiens?

• How the people and their technology changed over time.

• Why one village was more successful than another.

• What kind of jobs the people had.

• How the art of the people looked.

Based on your notes, why is it important to study the past?

• It helps us know what jobs people had and how they made tools.

• It helps us understand the present and prepare for the future.

• It shows us how different cultures are from each other.

• It helps archaeologists find more artifacts.