Anthropology Review!

Possible reasons for the evolution of bipedalism include all of the following except:

Evidence about the cultural and social life of Upper Paleolithic peoples suggests that...

_____ was the name given to the first members of the genus Homo as a reflection of their tool-making capacities.

What is the study of layering in the soil?

The majority of Homo sapiens evolutionary past occurred in the _______

enhanced sight and depth perception and grasping hands and feet are all thought to have evolved in early primates as a result of adaptation to ______.

There is no biological basis for racial categories.

______ skulls exhibit a mixture of Homo and australopithecine features.

The primary function of the characteristic chopping tool of the oldowan tool tradition was:

Prior to the 16th century, most of the world's darkest skinned populations lived closest to the equator, and a gradient of average skin color could be observed moving north from the region of the tropics in Africa, for example.

About 12,000 years ago....

The Natufians...

A detailed description and analysis of one community or culture is known as a(n)

What traditional classifications of subsistence was NOT practiced in Madagascar in Dr. Tucker's study area?

LiDAR is an archaeological research method that uses electrical resistance to generate images of structures.

Mendel experimented with what?

_______ is the term we use when there are marked differences between the female and male of the species.

Diachronic perspectives are important in archaeology because they look at...

The transition from foraging to farming, what paleopathological evidence is attributed to an agricultural diet?

Jane Goodall studied orangutans in Africa

What evolutionary advance in hominins is signaled by changes in foot bones?

The most prominent portable art from the Upper Paleolithic was...

Edible parts of wild plants are usually _____ than their domesticated counterparts.

Domestication of a plant or animal usually results in..

Biological anthropologists are

Why is radiocarbon dating so important to archaeologists?

Which statement is not true?

Which of the following problems are more likely to be found in a state level society as opposed to a small food foraging band?

Humans' major mode of adaptation, which enables them to live effectively in diverse environments is

Which of the following is not part of the role of practicing anthropologists?

Radio carbon dating may be performed on ____ remains up to ______ years old.

______ was most likely the most important invention in all of human history.

Which of the following men greatly influenced Charles Darwin with his principle of uniformitarianism?

Which subfield of anthropology would be the most appropriate for examining ancient economies through material remains?

A domesticated plant or animal...

What is the primary concern of archaeologists?

By comparing the mitochondrial DNA of populations today, some scientists conclude that Homo sapiens are all descended from a common ancestor that lived ____ years ago.

the oldest known manufactured tools date to ______.

_______ are similarities between species that are the result of similar adaptation to similar selective pressures- they are not the result of common ancestry.

_______ is the study of nonhuman primates- fossil and living apes, monkeys, and prosimians- including their behavior and social life.

When you study the collection of features, artifacts, and other materials from an archaeological site you're studying a(n)

You are a paleoanthropologist excavating a site in the Middle East. You come across several bodies buried in graves. Their brains are at least the size of modern humans. Their front teeth are large and worn down from use, the facial projection of their noses and teeth form a kind of prow, and both sexes are muscular and robust. At the back of the skull is a bony mass for the attachment of powerful neck muscles. You decide that they are _______.

The relationship between the graciles (A. africanus) and the robusts (A. robustus) has been debated for generations but not resolved.

An anthropologist is in the field of East Africa excavating human remains. She studies and analyzes fossils of human ancestors. What type of anthropologist might she be?

A stone bowl is an example of which of these in the field of archaeology?

Modernization discourse and subsistence assumes that more food per unit land is always better. What other factors other than quantity is important?

An analysis of two distinct cultures which examines similarities and differences in order to reveal common processes and cultural dynamics is a(n)

Both africanus and robustus probably made tools from perishable material, which is therefore not preserved in the fossil record.

Name 3 different types of organizations that applied anthropologists work for:

In the Americas, the earliest occurrence of maize is from deposits found in ______.