Anthropology Test One Flashcards

Anthropology is

Although human beings always have been interested in other human beings, anthropology has emerged as a tradition of scientific inquiry over the last

What are the traditional fields or subdisiplnes of anthropology?

The Garbage Project in Tucson demonstrated that what people say and what they do can differ dramatically. For instance, investigators found that

Historians, who usually study the past through written sources, are limited chronologically to

Which of the following research projects would NOT belong to the province of linguistic anthropology?

In-depth descriptive studies of specific cultures are called?

A(n) _____ is a closely examined and critically checked out explanation of observed reality

Franz Boaz did his first ethnographic research among the

Which of the following services is NOT one that forensic anthropologists routinely are called upon by the police and other authorities to identify?

The term that refers to worldwide interconnectedness, signified by global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases is known as

What is "transplant tourism?"

Reconstructing the evolution of the big toes to determine at what time humans began to walk would be a research project for which of the following type of anthropologists?

The hand of a human and wing of a bat are _____ structures, while the wings of birds and butterflies are _____ structures.

Generation after generation, the bullfrogs in a farm pond look much alike, have the same cells, and exhibit the same behavior when breeding. The _____ of the population appears to remain stable over time.

Ultimately, all natural selection is measured in terms of

A chance creation of a new allele is called a

The last 500 years have seen the introduction of Spanish and African alleles into Central and South American populations from Spanish colonists and African slaves. The change in the gene pool is caused by

The process by which a population becomes better adapted to its biological and social environment is

A ______ is a population or group of populations capable of interbreeding that is reproductively isolated from other such populations

Who proposed a "flower clock" that could show the time of day according to whether blossoms of particular species were open or shut

Among primates, humans are least related to which of the following?

A structure unique to lemurs is

Primates are mammals. Evidence from ancient skeletons indicates the first mammals appeared over ______ million years ago.

Among many species, males possess larger canine teeth than females. This is an example of sexual

Nearly _____ percent of the known primate species and subspecies face extinction in the next decade

Which of the following have no tails?

Which of the following primates have been observed hunting, killing and eating colubus guereza monkey?

Baboons feed on a diet of

The _____ is the large opening at the base of the skill through which the spinal cord passes and is an important clue to evolutionary relationships

As mentioned in your textbook, the skin around the genitals of the _____ female is constantly swollen, concealing the time of ovulation by looking and behaving as if they are always fertile.

The violence among chimpanzee groups witnessed by primatologist Jane Goodall is thought to have been the consequence of

If you were to visit a primate group in the wild, the most frequent type of activity that you would be likely to see is

An important method of learning among infants and juveniles is

The way chimpanzees in West Africa crack open oil-palm nuts requires observation and practice. After a great deal of practice, they are proficient by the age of

The hardened, nerveless buttock pads that allow baboons to sit for long periods of time are called

It is clear that all of the great ape species can develop language skills to the level of a ____ year old human child

Those physical anthropologists engaged in the recovery and study of fossil evidence for human evolution are known as

In the case of fossils, the block in which they have been removed from the field is cut open, and the fossil is separated from the matrix. Which of the following chemicals would be used in this process?

With accurate and detailed records of their excavations in hand, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists are able to deal with a plausible reconstruction of

For the archaeologists, according to the original study "Whispers from the Ice," having elders stand beside them and identifying items and providing _____ is like hearing the past whispering in their ears.

Which of the following conditions is most favorable to the preservation of fossils?

What is a "relative date"

You as your best friend's mother how old she is. She replies, "I'm younger that your mother." You were asking for a(n) _____ date, but she gave you a(n) ______ date.

You are investigating an archaeological site in which there are several clearly distinguishable layers of earth laid down. You find a piece of finely glazed china in the fifth (lowest) layer and a piece of unglazed pottery in the first (highest) layer. You assume that the unglazed pottery was made more recently that the finely glazed pottery. In making such an assumption you are using the method of

You are a paleoanthropologist uncovering fossils in East Africa. Using a certain technique, you discover that humanlike fossil is in a stratum between a volcanic eruption dated at 2.9 million years and another volcanic eruption whose rocks give a date of 3.6 million years. The fossil is about midway between these layers, so you assign a tentative date of 3.2-3.3 million years to your fossil. What technique are you using?

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed in

What are garbage disposal areas in an archaeological sites called?