Branches of Anthropology
This field of study helps us understand the environmental conditions that influenced people in the past.
What is Environmental Archaeology?
The main thing that linguistic anthropology studies.
What is Language?
"Anthro" means...
What is Human?
A term used to define an object made by a human being.
What is an Artifact?
This man is often called the "Father of American Anthropology"
Who is Franz Boas?
The name of this study comes from the Greek word “arkhaios,” which means “ancient.”
What is Archeology?
TRUE OR FALSE. All people who speak English use the same language/words in every context.
What is False?
The technical name for ancient humans.
What are Hominins?
Dating artifacts by analysing the order and position of layers of archaeological remains.
What is Stratigraphy?
A famous naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection.
Who is called Charles Darwin?
The study how people use and organize objects today.
What is Ethnoarchaeologists?
What is another way to say "survival of the fittest?"
Natural Selection
The term for preserved remains of biological matter.
What are Fossils?
Measuring the decay of a certain type of atom found in a once living organism to determine when it was last alive.
What is Carbon Dating?
Bred plants and his work indicated that humans inherit a variety of characteristics from their biological parents yet still maintain a unique DNA code.
Gregor Mendel
This field of study replicates the techniques and processes people used to create or use objects in the past.
What is Experimental Archaeology?
The means of communicating information and attitudes in a non-verbal manner.
What is Body Language?
Anthropologists study this to try and understand how and why humans are all different.
What is Human Variation?
What is Thermoluminescence Dating?
The cultural responses to environmental stresses such as climate and changing environments that could influence food sources.
What is Behavioural Adjustments?
This field of study works with geneticists to support or question DNA evidence.
What is Forensic Archaeology?
The area of the brain that controls speech is located in the (BLANK).
What is the Broca?
Anthropologists look at human variety to understand specific traits, like skin colour and blood type, in terms of ...
What is Evolutionary Significance?
Used on organic matter, this technique measures the amount of radioactive carbon decay to determine an object’s age.
What is Absolute Dating?
The reversible physiological changes to environmental stress, or the ability to adapt to severe environmental situations such as dressing properly in cold climates.
What is Acclimation Adjustments?