Biological
This process explains how advantageous inherited traits can become more common across generations.
What is natural selection?
Moving between languages or language varieties within a conversation is known by this term.
What is code-switching?
The precise three-dimensional location where an artifact is found is known by this term.
What is provenience?
A detailed anthropological account of a community or cultural group is called this.
What is an ethnography?
This term describes taking cultural objects, ideas, or practices—often from a marginalized group—without appropriate understanding, acknowledgment, or consent.
What is cultural appropriation?
Humans, apes, monkeys, lemurs, and lorises all belong to this mammalian order.
What are primates?
“Pat” and “bat” differ by only one sound and have different meanings, making them an example of this linguistic pairing.
What is a minimal pair?
Archaeologists use this absolute dating technique to determine the age of once-living materials by measuring carbon-14.
What is radiocarbon dating?
An anthropologist’s critical examination of how their own identity and position affect their research is called this.
What is reflexivity?
Discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, this Australopithecus afarensis skeleton was named after a Beatles song.
Who is Lucy?
Unlike natural selection, this evolutionary mechanism changes allele frequencies randomly, especially in small populations.
What is genetic drift?
The idea that language influences how its speakers perceive and categorize the world is called this principle.
What is linguistic relativity OR the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis?
Archaeologists use changes in artifact styles over time to arrange objects into a relative chronological sequence through this method.
What is seriation?
Judging another culture according to the standards of your own culture is called this.
What is ethnocentrism?
Passed in 1990, this United States law created processes for returning certain Indigenous ancestors and cultural items held by federally funded institutions.
What is NAGPRA?
A population founded by a small number of individuals may have reduced genetic diversity because of this form of genetic drift.
What is founder effect?
The number of living languages in Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse country in the world. (Closest answer gets the points)
840
This archaeological feature is essentially an accumulation of discarded materials such as food remains, broken pottery, and other refuse.
What is a midden?
Relationships created through marriage, descent, and culturally recognized family connections are studied under this anthropological concept.
What is kinship?
This term describes the return of human remains, sacred objects, or cultural property to their communities of origin.
What is repatriation?
Differences in physical characteristics between males and females of the same species are known by this term.
What is sexual dimorphism?
When a way of speaking points toward a social identity, emotion, or situation, it demonstrates this relationship between language and context.
What is indexicality?
Archaeologists study ancient plant remains, including seeds, wood, and food residue, through this specialized field.
What is archaeobotany?
Victor Turner used this term for the intense feeling of equality and shared connection that can emerge among people during a ritual transition.
What is communitas?
In Aztec mythology, the gods created the present era of humanity only after this feathered-serpent deity traveled to the underworld and retrieved the bones of earlier humans.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?