Intro to Anthropology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Archaeology
Vocabulary
100
The four subfields of Anthropology include these
What are Cultural, Physical, Archaeology, and Linguistics
100
This basic unit of genetic information is made up of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA
What are Genes
100
This term refers to the locations of artifacts, features, and sites in space and time
What is Provenience
100
This term refers to appearance represented by the allelic composition of a gene
What is Phenotype
200
This is the term for the systemic and scientific study of the way of life of one particular society, incuding subsistence, kinship patters, economics, politics, and religion
What is Ethnography
200
This phenomenon occurs when only a few founders populate an area and changes in the gene pool result purely from chance
What is the Founders Effect
200

A nonmoveable element of an archaeological site, it is evidence of human activity which primarily consists of cultural made materials that are part of the natural layer.

What is a feature?

200
This term refers to the concept that all cultures are equal and comparable, and no culture is inferior or superior
What is Cultural Relativism
300
This is the term for the comparative study of two or more societies
What is Ethnology
300
The three basic postulates of evolution by means of natural selection include
What are 1) Ability of a population to expand is infinite while resources are limited 2) Organisms vary in their individual traits and these variations allow some to survive and reproduce more successfully 3) Traits are passed from parents to offspring
300
Absolute and Relative refer to these kinds of techniques used in archeology
What is Dating
300
This problematic term refers to the idea that societies progress in stages from savagery to barbarism to civilisation
What is Unilinial evolution
400
Franz Boas' major contribution to Anthropology includes
What is the concept of cultural relativism
400
Explanations for evolutionary change that explain biological diversity in humans include these four factors
What are 1) Mutations 2) Natural selection 3) Genetic drift 4) Sexual selection
400
The stages in the development of archeology as a disipline include the following
What is Speculation, historical or cultural particularism, processural, and post-processual
400
This term refers the allelic composition of a gene
What is Genotype
500
Lewis H. Morgan's major contribution to Anthropology includes
What is Unilinial evolution
500
This distinctive characteristic of "Lucy" or Australopithecus Afarensis that makes her an ancestor in our evolutionary process includes
What is Bipedality
500

The latter portion of the Stone Age, a time period beginning around 10,000 B.C.E.

What is the Neolithic era?

500
This basic principle in archaeology and geology helps to determine the time of deposition of artifacts or strata
What is Uniformitarianism, or the idea that geologically anchient conditions were the same as those occuring today
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