(Q020) While reading an article for your archaeology class, you come across a section in which the author lays out a claim for why the Mesolithic foragers with long and narrow skulls were replaced by the agriculturalists with short and wide skulls in Nubia. Why is this claim that "short-headed" people came in and replaced all the "long-headed" people likely false

This is likely false because craniofacial changes can be attributed to long-term diet changes

Explanation:

the authors claim that short headed people (agriculturalists) came in and replaced all the long headed people (Mesolithic foragers)is false because

craniofacial changes can be attributed to long-term diet changes.

This is to say that the cause of the changes in skills can be attributed to changes in diet over a long period of time.

b) a state law could be declared illegal if it contradicted the constitution.

explanation:

the conflict of this case originated when james w. mcculloch, a cashier of the baltimore branch of the second bank of the united states that the congress had chartered in 1816, refused to pay a tax imposed by the maryland state.

in the case, the state of maryland appealed that the establishment of a second bank was unconstitutional since the constitution didn't say anything about granting that power to congress. however, the case determined that even if such right wasn't specifically stated in the constitution, it was part of the "implied powers" of the government enunciated in article i, section 8.

the case also eliminated maryland's legislation to impose taxes to a national bank, asserting that even though the states retained the power of taxation, the constitution's laws are supreme and can not be controlled by the states, therefore, if a state law contradicts the constitution, it should be declared illegal.

explanation:

the nationalists wanted a strong central government so the new country wouldn't fall apart.

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