Culture
What is the process of passing culture from one generation to the next called?
Acculturation
Archaeology
The idea that people are fundamentally different based on superficial differences
The concept of race
What is one activity associated with settlement
Agriculture
Why is sickle cell anemia a partially useful mutation?
Protection against malaria
What is the process by which language is learned called
Language Acquisition
Material remains
artifacts
If you walked from the equator to the north pole would you see a distinct change in skin color?
No
Provide som evidence that the Natufians lived in relatively permanent settlements
There are bones of young gazelles and migratory birds at the sites.
There are permanent buildings at settlement sites.
There are cemeteries.
The mutual shaping of organisms and their environments is known as
adaptation
What do we call the use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems in communities facing new challenges?
Applied Anthropology
what is a portion of a building found in an archaeological site
a feature
Are talents like athletic ability or artistic ability able to be traced to a single gene?
No
The systematic modification of the environments of plants and animals to increase their productivity and usefulness is called
Domestication
Name the four evolutionary processes
gene flow
genetic drift
mutation
selection
What do we call the general process of collecting anthropological data?
Fieldwork
What is survey
looking for sites aboveground
This form of descent automatically places children of a union of members of two groups in the minority group
hypodescent
Social relations in which great differences in wealth, power, or prestige divide members from one another are called
stratified society
What's the opposite?
The field that focuses on the study of short-term evolutionary change in a given species is known as
microgenetics
The opinion that one’s own way of life is natural or correct and the only true way of being fully human is called
Ethnocentrism
A systematic uncovering of an archaeological site
excavation
What is the type of status that people have little or no choice about occupying?
Ascribed
The process of increasingly permanent human habitation in one place is called
sedentism
The ability of organisms from different populations to successfully interbreed and produce viable, fertile offspring indicates that these organisms
belong to the same species
belong to the same genus