Not Paleontology
This refers to the fewest possible number of people or animals in a skeletal assemblage.
What is the Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI)?
Created by cultural anthropologists, this is a descriptive study of a particular human society or culture.
What is an ethnography?
What is evolution?
The city of Madison, WI is named after this US President.
Who is James Madison?
This is the group that really built the pyramids.
What are aliens?
This is the study of the layers of soil, debris, and cultural materials that accumulate on a site over time.
What is stratigraphy?
This is a method used by researchers when constructing an ethnography, in which the researcher immerses themself in a particular social setting or group.
What is participant observation?
This is the number of bones in an adult human skeleton.
What is 206?
This is the official bird of Madison, WI.
What is a plastic lawn flamingo?
This UW professor shares a similar taste in fashion as a certain semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of action.
Who is Professor John Hawks?
This is a system for classifying prehistoric artifacts according to successive stages of technological development.
What is the Three Age System? (Stone, Bronze, Iron)
This German-American is known as the "Father of American Anthropology".
Who is Franz Boas?
This is the two-part naming system used when referring to a species.
(genus + species)
What is binomial nomenclature?
This "campus cryptid" is known for his adventures beneath the city in the many underground steam tunnels.
Who is Tunnel Bob?
Perhaps the greatest archaeologist of all time, definitely the most accurate and ethical one out there.
Who is Indiana Jones?
This archaeologist is known for, for lack of a better phrase, blowing up the city of Troy.
Who is Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann?
This refers to the notion that one should not judge the behavior of other peoples using the standard of one's own culture.
What is cultural relativism?
These two species are the most closely related to modern humans.
What are chimpanzees and bonobos?
This 1986 comedy starring Rodney Dangerfield was filmed on the UW campus.
What is "Back to School"?
This Tubers to Tubers card can solve any problem.
What is an orangutan with a gun?
This archaeological theory takes on a scientific approach that uses hypothesis testing to explain cultural processes and adaptation.
What is processualism?
The book "Coming of Age in Samoa" is the best-known work of this cultural anthropologist.
Who is Margaret Mead?
This is the dental formula specifying the number of incisors, canines, premolars, and molars found commonly in modern humans and other primates.
What is 2.1.2.3.?
In 1977, this famous singer allegedly broke up a fight by displaying his karate moves on the corner of East Washington and Stoughton Ave.
Who is Elvis Presley?
The Egyptians believed the most significant thing you could do in your life was this.
What is die?