Test 1

Question 1

3 Subfields of Anthropology

Answer 1

1. Physical Anthropology
2. Cultural Anthropology
3. Applied Anthropology

Question 2

3 Subfields of Cultural Anthropology

Answer 2

1. Archeaology
2. Linguistics
3. Ethnology

Question 3

History

Answer 3

Within last 5000 years

Question 4

Prehistory

Answer 4

Over 5000 years old

“time before written records”

Question 5

Language is

Answer 5

the vehicle that transmits culture

Question 6

Participant observation

Answer 6

when you participate in their culture

Question 7

Culture Bound

Answer 7

when you judge people based off your own culture

Question 8

Stratigraphy

Answer 8

the dating of geological layers

Question 9

Fluorine

Answer 9

objects with more fluorine are older

Question 10

Potassium Argon

Answer 10

used for dating rocks

half life 1.3 billion years

useful 5000 years - 3 billion years

Question 11

absolute dating

Answer 11

something of written record w/ specific date

Question 12

beta particles

Answer 12

given off at time of death, 15 per gram

Question 13

dendochronology

Answer 13

dating of tree rings

101 rings= 101 years

Question 14

Taphonomy

Answer 14

anything from death to discovery

Question 15

Coco’s Bday

Answer 15

July 4th

Question 16

Bonoboe’s use sex

Answer 16

to diffuse conflicts and create alliances, no matter what gender

Question 17

Frodo

Answer 17

is jane goodall’s alpha male, killed a human baby once so he is violent

Question 18

chimp alpha males

Answer 18

can kill the young and be cannabalistic

Question 19

sexual dimorphism

Answer 19

difference of trait between genders

Question 20

2 primates that have sex outside of the estrus cycle

Answer 20

1. humans
2. bonoboes

Question 21

miocene time period

Answer 21

24-5.2 MYA

“time of the apes”

Dryopithecus, forest woodland ape, dryopithecus forward apes and humans have y-5 molar pattern

Question 22

Oligocene Time Period

Answer 22

34-24 MYA

Aegyptopithecus from this time period, Remains found in Fayum Basin in Egypt, first to have y-5 molar pattern

Question 23

Eocene Time Period

Answer 23

55-34 MYA

animals were nocturnal during this period period, skulls start to move eyes forward

Question 24

Paleocene Time Period

Answer 24

65-55 MYA

Purgatorius remains from this time period found in Montana

Question 25

Preconsul

Answer 25

sign of the first chimpanzees 14-8 MYA, small size and brain, no tools used, part time bipedal

Question 26

Ostropicthecus

Answer 26

2-4 MYA , used tools and toys brains 425-428 cc

Question 27

Yanomamo culture is rich in myths

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Yanomamo are nomadic hunters/gathers

Answer 28

false

Question 29

Yanomamo are most gentle people on earth

Answer 29

false

Question 30

Yanomamo people do believe in spirits and magic

Answer 30

True

Question 31

chimps are not fully bipedal

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Humans are

Answer 32

diurnal primates

Question 33

natural objects that have been used or affected by humans

Answer 33

ecofacts

Question 34

Yanomamo villages descend from one original village

Answer 34

true

Question 35

jane goodall is one of leakeys ladies

Answer 35

true

Question 36

chimps have been making and using tools for 4300 years

Answer 36

true

Question 37

children dying is proof to the Yanomamo that their magic is working

Answer 37

true

Question 38

chimps kill and eat

Answer 38

antelops monkeys bush pigs baboons basically whatever they can

Question 39

the temperature inside a igloo is usually kept below

Answer 39

freezing

Question 40

we were bipedal at least

Answer 40

3.8 MYA

Question 41

the leakeys found

Answer 41

paranthrops boisei in 1959, skull was at least 1.3-2.3 MYA 1960 lewis find Homo habilis ( largest primate brain size)

Question 42

Oldowan Tools

Answer 42

earliest paleolithic tools, used by homo habilis

Question 43

palynology

Answer 43

study the of pollens, can tell you diet at time of year

Question 44

Paleonology

Answer 44

study of comparitive vertibrate over time

Question 45

amino acid racemization

Answer 45

left and right hand amino acid dating technique good between 40,000-180,00 years ago can be done on ostrich egg

Question 46

chimps in the wild do not have flees

Answer 46

true

Question 47

divergent evolution

Answer 47

one species becomes multiple over time

Question 48

convergant evolution

Answer 48

two or more species develop similarities

Question 49

Tuang in the bantoo language mens

Answer 49

lions den

Question 50

Birute Galdikas works with \_\_\_?

Answer 50

orangutans