Social Anthro
A famous cultural anthropologist famous for her attitudes towards sex in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia during the 1960s.
Who is Margaret Mead?
A Chemist may determine the age of an object up to 50,000 years old using this method.
What is carbon dating?
Humans share 99% of their DNA with this species known for frequent intercourse
What are bonobos?
A complete language that has emerged at a place with contact between two language groups.
What is a creole?
He created the 1st Ph.D program in Anthropology
Who is Franz Boas?
These carved by natives in the Pacific Northwest often included a genealogy
What are totem poles?
These early European peoples are often misrepresented by the Romans as barbarians and are now survived by the languages of their descendants in the British Isles.
Who are the Celts?
Polygamy can be divided into "polygyny", or a male mating with multiple females & "this" or a female mating with multiple males
What is polyandry
A grammatically simplified form of a blended language used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
What is a pidgin?
The last name of famous evolutionary anthropologists Mary, Louis, and their son Richard.
Who are the Leakeys?
This -ism is the belief that spirits inhabit natural objects & phenomena
What is animism
Much of the writing in ancient Rome was done using a stylus on tablets of this--best not left out in the sun
What is wax?
A 2016 report suggests that this European hominin of the Pleistocene Epoch may have practiced cannibalism
What is Neanderthals?
Using more than one identifiable linguistic code in a single stretch of discourse
What is code switching?
Ötzi the Iceman was found in this mountain range.
What are the Swiss Alps?
This term for a basic social unit of two parents & their offspring sounds like they are radioactive
What is a nuclear family
According to the Geological Time Scale, humans are living in which epoch?
What is the anthropocene?
The Taung child discovered in 1924 was the first fossil ever found of this southern genus species africanus
What is australopithecus?
This language spurred the 1996 Oakland school board case where multilingualism advocates wanted students to be taught in the language rather than reprimanded for using it
What is Ebonics?
Best known for her 45 year study of primate behavior of chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
The study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them
What is ethnology?
The disappearance of this Bronze Age civilization from Crete is thought to coincide with the eruption of Santorini.
Who are the Minoans?
C3, T11, and L5 refer to this category of bone
What is vertebrae?
This principle holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its respective speakers conceptualize their world
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
This word refers to the tendency for a person to see one's own culture as the standard by which other cultures should be judged.
What is ethnocentrism?