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Archaeology

100

What is an artifact

an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest

200

Difference between prehistoric and historic archaeology?

Historic has written records

300

Type of dates used in archaeology?

BP, cal BP, yrs ago, AD, BC, BCE, CE

400

What date is the reference for BP?

1950

500

What does NAGPRA stand for?

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990

Cultural

100

What is cultural shock?

feelings of uncertainty, confusion, or anxiety that people may experience when moving to a new country or experiencing a new culture or surroundings

200

What is an ethnography

the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.

300

What level of society is the most complex in terms of social, economic, and political organization, and has a formal government and social classes

State level society

400

Explain ethnocentric perspective 

Judging other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people solely by the values, standards and frame of reference of one's own

500

Where did Dr. Cook's ethnographic video take place?

Guatemala, Maya highlands

Linguistics

100

What is pragmatics? 

the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used, including such matters as deixis, the taking of turns in conversation, text organization, presupposition, and implicature.

200

What is an allophone?

Sounds or realizations of a phoneme

1. any of the various phonetic realizations of a phoneme in a language, which do not contribute to distinctions of meaning. For example, in English an aspirated p (as in pin ) and unaspirated p (as in spin ) are allophones of the phoneme /p/, whereas in ancient Greek the distinction was phonemic.

   
   

300

Give an example of Free Variation

pin/pen 

tomato

either

neither

economics

400

Name one place/point of articulation

Glottis, uvula, velum, Postalveolar, Alveolar ridge, teeth, lips

500

What is a pidgin language

its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages. It is most commonly employed in situations such as trade,

Osteology

100

How many bones are in the human body?

206 in the adult body

200

What suture disappears or shrinks after childhood?

The metopic suture

300

Which bones are important for height measurements?

the humerus, femur, and tibia

If possible,

the ulna, radius, and fibula 

 

400

Name one of the four major sutures in the skull

Metopic Suture, Coronal Suture, Sagittal Suture or Lambdoid Suture

500

Where can you find the smallest bones in the human body?

the ear

Environmental

100

What can be radiocarbon dated?

• Organic material like charcoal, bone, wood, etc. 

200

What are some ways anthropologists can understand the weather and climate at a certain point in time?

tree rings, ice cores, pollen, lake cores, etc.

300

What is ecology?

relationships between organisms and their environment.

400

Ecosystem?

A system, or a functioning whole, composed of both the physical
environment and the organisms living within it.

500

Carrying Capacity?

The number of people that the available resources can support at a
given level of food-getting techniques.