Being Human

Question 1

Measure something, map connect the two lines and then go down to the ground (third line).

Answer 1

3-point provenience

Question 2

Any date where a year or range of years can be applied to a site or an artifact.

Answer 2

absolute dating

Question 3

Biological change to a changing environment (evolution).

Answer 3

adaptation

Question 4

The study of Humanity

Answer 4

Anthropology

Question 5

The study of human past (reconstructs culture).

Answer 5

Archaeology

Question 6

Human made and hand held

Answer 6

artifacts

Question 7

First hominid ancestor (represents Hominids).

Answer 7

Australopitecus

Question 8

Walking on 2 legs

Answer 8

bipedal

Question 9

radio metric (requires the presence of carbon)

Answer 9

C14 dating

Question 10

current era

Answer 10

Cenozoic Era

Question 11

Father of modern biology, evolution.

Answer 11

Charles Darwin

Question 12

the belief that God created all things out of nothing as described in the Bible and that therefore the theory of evolution is incorrect (95% still believe)

Answer 12

creationism

Question 13

tree ring dating

Answer 13

Dendrochronology

Question 14

unique and to itself (it is learned)

Answer 14

culture

Question 15

a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context

Answer 15

cultural relativism

Question 16

comparison between cultures

Answer 16

Ethnology

Question 17

description of culture

Answer 17

Ethnography

Question 18

fixed in form, no change (eg. dog was always a dog)

Answer 18

fixidity

Question 19

Laetoli

Answer 19

footprints

Question 20

the creation of past life ways through the study of the written record (aka. historic time)

Answer 20

historical archaeology

Question 21

Epoch now

Answer 21

Holocene Epoch

Question 22

The family that humans belongs to

Answer 22

Hominid

Question 23

biological classification

Answer 23

Homo sapiens sapiens

Question 24

find something and don’t move it (being in original position)

Answer 24

in-stu

Question 25

what is higher is younger; lower is older

Answer 25

Laws of Superposition

Question 26

the study of languages

Answer 26

Linguistics

Question 27

common name for Australopithecus

Answer 27

Lucy

Question 28

tool for Australopithecus

Answer 28

Osteodontokeratic

Question 29

Sub division (last ice age)

Answer 29

Pleistocene Epoch

Question 30

Before the time of writing

Answer 30

Prehistoric Archaeology

Question 31

biological order

Answer 31

Primate

Question 32

first known primate (subgroup)

Answer 32

prosimian

Question 33

geological time we are in

Answer 33

Quarternary Period

Question 34

dating technique, measuring decay

Answer 34

radiometric

Question 35

usually the date is expressed in terms of older than or younger than (eg. I am older than you)

Answer 35

relative dating

Question 36

male is larger than female

Answer 36

sexual dimorphism

Question 37

layers of the earth

Answer 37

stratigraphy

Question 38

what happened in the past by looking at the earth today

Answer 38

uniformitarism

Question 39

explain cultural variations, predestined (classify culture)

Answer 39

unilineal evolution

Question 40

nothing or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occuring from 25 to 10 mya

Answer 40

Minocene

Question 41

Death and disease

Answer 41

Forensic anthropology

Question 42

Explain human origins, studies the physical development of human species

Answer 42

Biological anthropolgy

Question 43

of or relating to a period of milder climate between two glacial periods

Answer 43

interglacial

Question 44

history of particular group (people and cultures)

Answer 44

Ethnohistory

Question 45

fossilized brain

Answer 45

endocast

Question 46

radio metric dating technique (C14-12 + decay)

Answer 46

radio carbon dating