Cultural/Linguistic
“Any word, gesture, or object which stands for or expresses something else.”
Symbol
To reveal or unearth by digging.
Excavate
Branch of anthropology that studies living and extinct primates.
Primatology
The species name of the fossil specimen “Lucy.”
Australopithecus afarensis
Breed of dog in the Doge meme
Shiba inu
“Anthropological research in which one learns about the culture of another society through fieldwork and first hand observation in that society.”
Ethnography
An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
Artifact
The mechanism by which evolution takes place. Its three postulate are Competition, Variation and Inheritance.
Natural selection
Archaeological site in the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania excavated by Mary and Louis Leakey. Geographic origin of Oldowan Technology. Called, “One of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world.”
Olduvai Gorge
The name of the mummy in the Mummy movie series.
Imhotep
“Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.”
Ethnocentrism
The study of layers in an archaeological site or dig.
Stratigraphy
This law states that bone will remodel or grow in response to forces or demands placed on it.
Wolff’s Law
A Founding Father who performed excavations of Native American burial mounds in Virginia. Said that the mounds were not the work of the contemporary Native people but the work of a smarter “Lost Race.”
Thomas Jefferson
Popular internet trend related to a photoshop app, consists of many scrunchies, hydroflasks, and the phrases “save the turtles” and “and i oop.”
VSCO girl
Uses ideas from Marxism, cultural evolution, and cultural ecology to contend that “the physical world impacts and sets constraints on human behavior.
To refill an excavation hole with material dug out of it.
Backfilling
This feature is the the angle formed at the knee between the femur and tibia in which the knee angulates toward the midline with the tibia angulating away from the midline. It is a diagnostic feature of bipedalism.
Valgus knee
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and influential African-American anthropologist and filmmaker. Student of Franz Boas.
Zora Neale Hurston
The heptapods ‘big question’ that causes the union between countries to break in the movie Arrival.
Offer weapon
The ability to stand back and assess aspects of one's own behaviour, society, culture etc in relation to such factors as their motivations, origins, meanings, etc.
Reflexivity
This dating method compares artifacts from a dated site with artifacts from an undated site.
Cross dating
A dramatic reduction in genetic diversity of a population or species resulting from an ecological crisis that wipes out most of its members.
Bottleneck effect
Influential early anthropologist who conducted his most famous ethnographic work in the Trobriand Islands in Melanesia. Austro-Hungarian.
The name of the boy yodeling in Walmart.
Mason Ramsey