Let's Get Dirty
This professor teaches the Explorations in Archaeology course at ISU among many others.
Who is Logan Miller?
This language has the most speakers worldwide, but ONLY when counting both native and non-native speakers.
What is English?
Known for her work with chimpanzees, this primatologist passed away in late 2025 at age 91.
Who is Jane Goodall?
Indiana Jones, an archaeologist and professor portrayed by this actor is commonly credited with making anthropology cool again
Who is Harrison Ford?
These types of words occur when a word is adopted, sometimes directly, from one language to another.
What are loanwords?
The major living groups of primates include Lemurs, Lorises, Tarsiers, New World Monkeys, Old World Monkeys, and this type of intelligent primates lacking tails.
What are apes?
This triangular archaeological tool is used for scraping through small amounts of dirt, just don't confuse it with the gardening tool of the same name
What is a trowel?
These types of languages, also called contact languages, are used to communicate between people who do not share a common language, and are often a result of plantation/colonial settings.
What are pidgin languages?
The fossilized skeleton of this Australopithecus afarensis is now kept in the National Museum of Ethiopia, although several museums like the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and The Field Museum feature casts and models of her.
Who is Lucy?
This archaeological site located about 30 minutes from ISU is excavated yearly by students, and is home to a 700 year old Native American village.
What is Noble-Wieting?
The name given to the group of the following languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese
What are Romance Languages?
Punch, the baby monkey who went viral for being bullied and holding his orangutan stuffed animal, is this type of monkey.
What is a Japanese Macaque/Snow Monkey?
In what year did Mount Vesuvius erupt, burying the nearby town of Pompeii and others in volcanic ash? (Just ballpark it this is for my own entertainment).
What is 79 AD?
This unique non-Indo-European language spoken in Spain and France has no known relatives
What is Basque?
Known for his understanding of spoken human language and participation in studies on primate tool use, Kanzi (may he rest in peace) was this type of ape originally considered to be a subspecies of chimpanzees.
What is a bonobo?