Anthropology midterm
Who are the Narcerima?
Americans
The progression of ancestral forms leading to modern-day humans, the earliest being first, is which of the following sequences?
Australopithecines - Homo habilis - Homo erectus - Homo sapiens
Which of the following traits is unique to hominins and NOT found in other primates?
Bipedalism
Which of the following would be considered a functionalist?
Bronislaw Malinowski
The thinker who developed the theory of evolution by means of natural selection in the nineteenth century was
Charles Darwin
Studying another culture from its own point of view without imposing our own cultural values is known as:
Cultural Relativism
Which of the following is NOT a concept key to the human culture as discussed in the lecture?
Culture is isolated
Which of the following is NOT studied by anthropologists?
Dinosaur bones
Behavioral ecology uses a comparative approach to evaluate differences among primates.
False
Old World monkeys are exclusively terrestrial dwellers.
False
When considering other hominins, culture is only found among modern humans (Homo sapien sapiens).
False
The American anthropologist responsible for the concept of historical particularism was named
Franz Boas
According Becoming Human (and Daniel Lieberman), the most compelling hypothesis for why bipedalism developed in early hominins is
It conserved energy
Besides fossilized skeletal remains, what other evidence indicates bipedalism in Australopithecus afarensis?
Laetoli Footprints
According to the lecture, which school of anthropological thought stresses the interrelationship among the natural conditions in the environment and society?
Neoevolutionism
The rough edge stone chopping tools made by Homo habilis are called
Olduwan tools
The ability to touch the thumb with the tips of the other fingers on the same hand is called:
Opposability
Which of the following is NOT one of the four major sub-fields of anthropology?
Paleontology
In archaeology, this is a division of prehistory based on gross changes in subsistence patterns, climatic changes, housing and burial styles, etc.
Period
Which of the following is NOT a part of a human's taxonomic classification?
Plattyrhine
According to "Our Babies Ourselves", which of the following is NOT one of the "3 R's" of child rearing in Dutch society?
Respect
In Becoming Human, Zeray Alemseged named the Australopithecus afarensis child he found in Ethiopia
Selam
Which of the following is NOT evidence of early hominin bipedalism in the fossil record (as discussed in the presentation)?
Strong clavicle
According to the lecture. reading your textbook is an example of:
Symbolic Learning
When cultural anthropologists go into the field
They go with a set of questions they want to ask and have answered They often change the focus of their question to fit what they are seeing They often go with the flow of everyday life, even if it seems off-topic at the time
A distinguishing feature of most australopithecines is their high degree of sexual dimorphism.
True
Archaeologists are making a mistake when they clean samples of potsherds for analysis.
True
According to "Our Babies Ourselves", the goal of child-rearing in any society is to make the child:
a culturally appropriate adult
Chronometric dating techniques used by archaeologists help establish
a more specific age for a fossil or something organic
One important adaptation found in New World monkeys is the presence of
a prehensile tail
Which project would likely require the assistance of a geomorphologist?
a study of landscape change
Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called
action research
One of the methods that archaeologists can use to determine potentially useful areas to excavate involves the use of
aerial surveys surface surveys regional surveys GIS systems
A quantitative approach to studying an archaeological site in the American Southwest would be most interested in
building and testing hypotheses by collecting, classifying, and measuring the remains of past cultures
When children in the United States reach a certain age, they often move out of their parents' home and into their own living space, something anthropologists refer to as
dispersal
During fieldwork, cultural anthropologists
earn the local language record people's economic transactions study how environmental changes affect agriculture
A form of non-portable material culture that a human has made and modified is called a/an____________.
feature
What process involves shifting from an agricultural economy to a factory-based one?
industrialization
In some species of primates, females and their relatives and young are socially organized around
matrifocal units
If you wanted to understand very early, non-living human beings, you would likely engage in
paleoanthropology
The structuralist approach to culture theorizes what?
people make sense of the world through binary oppositions (e.g., raw/cooked)
Ethnocentrism
presents a major problem for anthropologists means you think your culture is superior to others is a common feature of culture
A dominance hierarchy exists when members of the same group have
ranking relative to others that establishes access to resources
Cultural anthropologists face an ethical responsibility in their work and so must disclose to informants
reasons for doing the research
Discovery of an archaic human in the Denisova cave, which consisted of a finger bone and two teeth, has allowed paleoanthropologists to
reconstruct their genome
Primates rely extensively on all the characteristics listed below except
sense of smell
According to the lecture, in order for an explanation to be defined as scientific, it must be:
testable
A qualitative approach to studying social life in your university would emphasize all of the following except
the construction of statistical models to explain activities in the community
The main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture
through systematic connections of different parts
Neanderthals and modern humans share the same genus and species classification (Homo sapien).
true