SKELETAL TRIVIA
The average amount of bones in the adult skeleton.
206 bones!
Our newest professor!
This cryptid is colloquially known as "Nessie."
The Lock Ness Monster!
The study of learned human behaviors, evolution and more. Or, the study of humans and humanity.
Anthropology!
The heaviest bone in the human body.
The femur!
This professor worked in the Peruvian Andes!
Professor Benjamin Smith!
Expressive culture shared by a particular group of people using oral, material, and event traditions.
Folklore!
The Four Subfields of (American) Anthropology!
Cultural, Biological, Lingustics, and Archaeology.
The average amount of bones in an adult skull.
22 Bones!
Also a professor of Geography, Environment, and Planning (GEP)
Professor Allison Ford!
The night before Halloween?
Mischief Night!
This form of research studies garbage. To understand modern material culture, that is.
The archaeology of garbage!
It removes old and damaged bone tissue.
Osteoclasts!
This professor coordinates our CHRM Graduate Program!
Professor Alexis Boutin!
Halloween takes influence from this Gaelic festival!
Samhain!
A form of anthropology that studies the interactions between humans and non-human animals.
Zooanthropology (or anthrozoology)!
The only bone not articulated (touching) with another bone.
Hyoid!
That special night in which a man breaks into your house to leave you trinkets and tchotchkes in exchange for eating your food.
Christmas!
Our Australopithecus Afarensis relative in the stars.
Lucy!