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Egyptian-tology
100
These units of inheritance are actually long segments of codons in DNA molecules.
What are genes?
100
Henry Mitchell Miner wrote an essay on these people, whose rituals include visiting the "holy-mouth-men" and going to the "latipso".
Who are The Nacirema?
100
The statue seen here is a tribute to this goddess, and it also is in honor of a battle won by its creators.
Who is Nike?
100
The study of sound in language.
What is phonology?
100
This city was the capital of Egypt from the beginning in the Dynastic Period.
What is Memphis?
200
This record shows that some species are evolutionary transitions between major groups of organisms.
What is the fossil record?
200
When a group of people (seemingly strangers) get together to do something completely random, given the place that they chose to do said action.
What is a flash mob?
200
This gate is the only entrance into the city of Mycenae and has a bastion along it's right side for extra protection from invaders.
What is the Lion's Gate?
200
Spoken language is believed to have arisen in this human group.
Who are modern Homo sapiens?
200
Egyptology is generally seen as having begun with this event.
What is Napoleon's invasion (of Egypt)?
300
Taking their lead from Archbishop Ussher, 18th century scientists almost universally accepted that the earth was created this long ago.
What is October 23 in 4004 B.C. (or roughly 6,000 years ago)?
300
A specific form of culture shock experienced by a society that is undergoing to rapid a culture change usually resulting from frequent inventions and diffusion from other groups.
What is 'future shock'?
300
The statue seen here contains the most ripped priest that you will ever meet.
What is the Laocoon Group?
300
Branch of linguistics focusing on recreating lost words from ancient languages.
What is Historical Linguistics?
300
It was in this Dynasty that the King Scorpion was known to have reigned.
What is the 0 Dynasty?
400
Carolus Linnaeus was a very talented scientist who created this type of classification system for describing all living things, including humans.
What is hierarchical?
400
Anthropologists use this method of research, which involves becoming an active member of an event, to better understand another culture or society.
What is participant observation?
400
The people of Mycenae claimed to be this, implying that they (and their ancestors) had always lived on the land and that it therefore belonged to them.
What is autochthonus?
400
Words in sister languages that are formed from a single word in a parent language.
What are cognates?
400
This Victorian Era fad (often actually an academic rather than social gathering) created issues in the historical record of Egypt.
What are unwrapping parties?
500
Working in virtual obscurity during the mid-19th century, this monk gave us the basis for understanding genetic inheritance.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
500
The American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon spent more than 30 years learning about these Indians of southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil.
Who are the Yanomamö?
500
The Aphrodite of Knidos, seen here, was created by this man, and set the stage for statues like Capitoline Venus and Crouching Aphrodite.
Who is Praxiteles?
500
When a person switches between languages, dialects, or registers within a single conversation.
What is code switching?
500
Egyptians from the Middle Kingdom on called their land Kemet, meaning this.
What is "Black Land"?