Archaeology
Controversial pseudo archaeologist famous for ancient aliens
Who is Graham Hancock
Environmental factors or errors in cells that change genetic materials
What is mutation
research method involves studying a community within that community’s setting
ethnography
The idea that different languages encode different categories of thought leading speakers of different languages to perceive the world differently
What is Linguistic relativity / what is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
The social and cultural rules that govern how language is used in particular contexts, such as the difference between formal and informal language
What is a register
Incredible archaeological discovery made by a farmer in China
What are the terracotta warriors
A change in allele frequency over time in a population
What is evolution
practice of marrying within a specific social group such as a clan
What is endogamy
The study of how language and social identity intersect, including how factors like class, gender, and ethnicity influence speech patterns
What is sociolinguistics
This term refers to a type of society in which kinship is traced through the mother’s line rather than the fathers
Matrilineal
Most common type of artifact found at pre-historic sites in Texas
Chipped stone tools/ projectile points
Primates that have prehensile tails
what are New world monkeys
Ceremonial exchange system among the people of the Trobriand Islands of southeast Melanesia
What is the Kula ring
Early sociolinguist who famously conducted what is known as the fourth floor experiment
Who is William Labov
method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, volume, or other characteristic by analysis of pulsed laser light reflected from their surfaces
What is LiDAR
a natural hole in the surface of the earth which is formed after extensive corrosion of the limestone rock by subterranean water
what is a cenote
The fossilized skull of a young Australopithecus africanus discover by Raymond Dart in South Africa in 1924
What is the Taung Child
In this type of society, the social order is maintained by rules and expectations for behavior, but the structure of society is not rigid or codified
What is an egalitarian society
A dialect or form of language that emerges when a pidgin language evolves into a fully developed language, complete with complex grammar and vocabulary
What is a Creole
A rule that states that populations and species of a larger size are found in colder environments while populations and species of smaller size are found in warmer environments
Bergmann’s rule
type of dating that can show from the bones or teeth of a person what region they lived in
What is strontium dating
The earliest known primate that evolved during the paleocene epoch
What are plesiadapiforms
This type of economic exchange is characterized by the movement of goods and services based on reciprocal relationships rather than a market-driven transaction
What is reciprocity
This term, coined by Victor Turner, refers to the period of ambiguity and disorientation that people experience during rituals of passage, such as rites of initiation or marriage ceremonies
what is liminality
Process used by the aztec to help make corn more digestible
What is nixtamalization