Anthropology

Which sentance best describes the Neolithic "revolution"?

A period during which animals begin to be domesticated and early efforts at farming emerge

Clovis refers to...

A popular and distinctive style of tool making in the Americas

Which of the following archeologists sites is/are an example of an activity area!

A town covered suddenly by a volcanic eruption

Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks for the following statements: Radiometric techniques based on known rate of decay for unstable isotope give ____________ dates meaning a specific age or range of dates is found in contrast stratigraphy produces ____________dates not a true age just a place in the historical sequence with us updates

Absolute, relative

Which of the following hominins were likely bipedal

All of these

What evidence suggests that humans migrated to North America from Asia

All of these forms of evidence have been found and suggest migration from Asia to North America

Cultural Hegemony

All of these statements about cultural hegemony are true

Which of the following is/are true about personhood

All of these statements are true of personhood

Lucy is an example of which hominin

Australopithecus afarensis

Which of the following represents the best example of political intersectionality

Black women being unable to get jobs at a major corporation because the Secretarial jobs are only for white women in the assembly floor jobs were only for black men

Which of the following is not one of Daniels 1998 nine ideas about language

Correct pronunciation shows intelligence

Choose the option that best fill in the blanks spaces in the following statement the essence of modern adaptation is _______________flexibility and ability response even to rapid and dramatic environmental changes by inventing new technologies and approaches to __________ housing clothing heating and so on

Cultural, subsistence

Choose the option is the best fills in the blanks pieces in the following statements: the earliest form of writing was called__________ and it is believed to develop from a complex system of tokens used to __________

Cuneiform, count goods

Carbon 14 isotope decay can be used on an individual's remains to:

Determine how much time has elapsed since the individual died

Choose the option that best fits in the blank in the following statement a(n) ________________is a pathogenic physiological condition as it is understood by Bio medicine while the term ____________ is used to refer to away a disease is culturally experienced

Disease, illness

In chapter 7 de Leon uses the term historical in Mesa to explain angry reaction to his earlier work on the archaeological record of migration reactions that labor my friends criminals and take offense at their comparison with earlier waves of immigrants coming to America is reactions show historically in the show because

Do you forget how Early European immigrants coming to America were treated

Natural selection, extinction and adaptation are important to which theory?

Evolution theory

Choose the option that best fills in blank: ______________ was an early opponent of scientific racism in America and found __________ anthropology In early 20th century

Frank boas, four field

Which species of hominins left Africa

Homo erectus

Which of the following hominins made tools according to widely accepted evidence?

Homo habilis

Which of the following is most likely the direct ancestor of modern humans

Homo habilis

Which of the following was not given as a reason for the collapse of maya civilization

Human sacrifice wiped out farm workers who had the best genes for survival

Choose the option that best for fills in the blank spaces in the following statement: the dominant social form for much of human history was the _________ society people living in these types of societies were often ____________and living in groups with a _________division of labor

Hunter gather, nomadic, simple

The biological process of natural selection is best described by which statement:

Individuals of species possessing advantageous characters are most likely to survive and pass those characteristics onto their offspring.

Choose the best answer to compete this sentence: complex foraging....

Is a system that focuses on hunting and gathering a select few resources, used by the Natufian culture.

Which of the following is not true of gender

It is based on biological realities and it is does exactly the same across cultures

Both Paul farmer and Jason De Leon's work they use the concept of structural violence to characterize what happens to the people they work with and study which of the following is not a characteristic of structural violence

It is really easy to identify explain and assign responsibility or go to the appropriate prepetrators

What do we mean when we say that the Paleolithic art "expensive"?

It used valuable labor and energy that might have contributed to subsistence and survival

According to what we learned in lecture the fader text approximately when did the gradual shift from archaic homeo sapiens to anatomically modern humans take Place

Just before 200,000 years ago

Which of the following is not form of evidence pointing toward artificial selection of plants

Large caches of Clovis points

Which of the following is not a form of evidence pointing towards domestication of animals

Large stones I could only have been moved by a harness the power of horses or cattle

Which of the following is/are true about prognathism and human lineage

Lucy was similar to us in some ways but her face was more prognathous

Which list of periods in correct order (oldest to more recent?

Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

Choose the option that best fills in the blanks in the following statements physician anthropologists _____________and Jim Kim originally found organization partners in health in order to treat ___________ in populations of very poor persons living in rural

Paul farmer, tuberculosis, haiti

Which thinker is associated with the idea of cultural symbolic capital and it's linked to language

Pierre bourdieu

Which of the following is not one of the four fields of anthropology?

Primatology (sub field of bilogical anthroplogy)

Which of the following is not forth as a reason explaining for bipedalism

Quadrupeds only use 1/4 the energy bipeds use and exploited resources in smaller areas

Which of the following is not a characteristic of chiefly societies

Record of written language, cuneiform Alr hieroglyphics

The term affluent foragers

Refers to the people who like in resource rich areas like those who built the mount structures at poverty point LA.

Choose the best answer to complete this sentence: Homo habilis tools..

Showed planning because stone cores were brought from one location to the other

Which of the following is not true about race and clinal variation

Skin color is the only thing that cannot be explained by clinal variation so some proponents of scientific racism continue to use it today as a valid example that biological race is exists

Enthocentrism is best described as...

The belief that ones culture is normal and natural; the tendency to judge other people by the standards of ones own culture.

Biomedicine is premised on Cartesian dualism the idea of split between

The mind and the body

Laptia is....

The name given to the pottery style seen on the inhabited island of Polynesia

Cultural repatriation refers to

The process of returning culturally significant items to concern communities

Which of the following statements is true about theories of modern human origins

The replacement out of Africa theory states that humans evolved in Africa and replaced other hominins after migrating to Europe and Asia

If I say that because of their language the inuit think about snow differently than American still I am drawing from

The sapir whorf hypothesis

Which trait of the australopithecines makes them appear more like us and less like apes

The shape of their pelvis

Which of the following is true of a prehistoric cave paintings

The true meaning of the painting is unknown

Which statement is true about both Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell

They both focused on the theme of gradual change over time in the natural world.

Neatherlands are unique among hominins for which reason

They were biological adapted to cold climate

What statement is true about the laetoli footprint

They were must likely made australopithecines

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence Indiana Jones is a really bad example of contemporary archaeology because

What we once considered 'preservation' is now much more like looting because it ignores the descendants might consider the artifacts tangible heritage

Hypodescent sometimes called the one drop rule refers to

When a dominant culture group identifies children resulting from the union of two members of different races as the members of the minority group if they have a metaphorical one drop of minority blood then they are considered a member of the minority

Which of the following is the best example of the diglossia

When someone speaks mid western American English at work but southern American English one talking to the family back home in Alabama

In Crenshaw's mapping the margins examples of political and structural intersectionality is based on Crenshaw's field work with

Woman of color experiencing domestic violence

If you do a strontium isotope analysis on my teeth you will find out

where I grew up

Which of the following best describes issues of structural intersectionality

-Ism (racism, sexism, ageism etc) intersect to create increased marginalization. The structures that organize society by social groups interact to produce unintended effects

Choose the option that identifies the morphemes in the following sentence the cat got an unsightly cut when I squeeze through the fence

-un, sight, and -ly in "unsightly", -ed and squeeze in "squeezed"

In Jason de Leon's the land of open graves he uses the concept of a hybrid collectif to explain

A combination of human and nonhuman actors that enact agency in the process that affect migraines leading to migrant suffering and sometimes death