Cultural(dinara)
This anthropologist was criticized after their death for their supposed misunderstanding of an Oceanic culture. The book they wrote about their research made them a household name in anthropology.
Who is Margaret Mead
This famous paleoanthropologist’s research team discovered the Laetoli Footprints in 1978 in Tanzania.
Who is Mary Leakey
This archaeologist literally dug a whole trench through a famous tell site and used explosives to “excavate” his way to lower levels of the site.
Who is Heinrich Schliemann
what does an ethnolinguist study?
what is, language
The field of study that is often mistakenly grouped with anthropology.
What is paleontology?
This term describes the methodological practices of being aware of one’s own social, cultural, and environmental baggage that can impact their work and relationships with informants.
What is reflexivity
These are the three major categories of primates.
What are monkeys, apes, and prosimians
This subfield of archaeology combines biological anthropology with archaeology by studying the past through human remains.
What is bioarchaeology
anthropologist who helped establish modern linguistics
who is Edward Sapir
The NYC museum that houses one of the most important specimens of a pre-modern human: Lucy.
What is the American Museum of Natural History?
An approach and methodology in which a researcher goes out into the field to personally interact with and observe members of the culture that they are studying.
What is ethnography
This subfield looks at hominin fossils and tools to infer our evolutionary history.
What is paleoanthropology
As Mr. Hughes once said, with what instrument are you and your besties going to use when you’re going mammoth hunting
What is an atlatl
the study of the sounds of language
what is phonology
The Hofstra University's forensic anthropology professor who worked on the New England serial killer case along with consulting for the show "Bones."
Who is Dr. Hartnett-McCann?
Almost any aspect of culture can be denounced as this, which somehow deems it to be not real, but still existent and impactful on everyday life.
What is a social construct
This nonhuman primate is our closest living relative.
What are chimpanzees and bonobos
If you and your friends happened to stumble across a hearth that you believe to be very old, you would typically use this element-based dating method.
What is Carbon 14 dating
which early human group began speaking first?
who is, no one knows... yet
The anthropologist that is considered the "Father of American Anthropology."
Who is Franz Boas?
This anthropologist LOVED symbols. He couldn’t get enough of them that he integrated them into all his theories, even if they didn’t fit.
Who is Clifford Geertz
You are able to deduce the diet of specific primates by analyzing their…
What are teeth
The proper archaeological terminology for a broken piece of pottery.
What is a sherd? (not shard, sherd)
three trends in linguistic anthropology
what is descriptive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics
The first female African-American anthropologist, who studied the folklore and culture of African-Americans in the American South.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?