UConn Faculty
The head of the department
Who is Christian Tryon?
What is ethnography/an ethnography?
The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
The three ear bones.
What is malleus, incus, and stapes?
Any object made, used, or modified by people. They are portable and can be removed from the site. Examples include tools, weapons, pottery, etc.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A professor who conducts archaeological research in Armenia
Who is Dan Adler?
The tendency to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standards
What is ethnocentrism?
The swashbuckling, fictional archaeologist who popularized archaeology to audiences globally
Who is Indiana Jones?
The practice of recreating ancient traditions so that an archaeologist can test a hypothesis.
What is experimental archaeology?
Famous for writing "The Communist Manifesto"
Who is Karl Marx?
Professor interested in underwater and battlefield archaeology.
Who is Kevin McBride?
What is organization based on in most small-scale, non-industrial societies?
What is kinship?
What is Jurassic Park?
The name of the frozen Ice Man
What is Otzi?
Famous for her work with social structure and family patterns of chimpanzees
Who is Jane Goodall?
Teaches classes on cultural and social anthropology, as well as psychological anthropology
Who is Noga Shemer?
The degree to which males and females are unequal in things such as status
What is gender stratification? :(
Famous economic anthropologist who worked in rural Indonesia (Hint: Obamas mother)
Who is Ann Dunham?
The branch of applied archeology aimed at preserving sites threatened by dams, highways, and other projects. A common job for many archaeologists!
What is cultural resource management? (CRM)
Known as the father of American Anthropology
Who is Franz Boas?
A cognitive anthropologist who directs the Experimental Anthropology Lab at UConn
Who is Dimitris Xygalatas?
Religion in which descent groups have an animal, plant, or geographical feature from which they claimed descent
What is totemism?
The skeleton we got 40% of that's named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is this type of species
What is an Australopithecus afarensis?
The science or technique of dating events, environmental change, and archaeological artifacts by using the characteristic patterns of annual growth rings in timber and tree trunks.
What is dendrochronology?
Known for his work with anthropological symbols and their impact on culture, particularly ones associated with religion.
Who is Clifford Geertz?