Introduction to Anthropology

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Anthropology 101 Dr. Meyers Exam 1 1. Gene flow can occur in which of the following situations? D.) All of the Above 2. What are the four subdisciplines of anthropology? C.) Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology. 3. If I successfully train myself to finish a triathlon, and then bear children, I believe I will pass on my nowtrained muscle strength to my children. This is an example of what? B.) Lamarkian Evolution 4. A theory proposed in the 1960’s suggested that during the Salem witch trials, girls were eating tainted bread which caused them to hallucinate. This theory is an example of? B.) Effects of cultural biases in science 5. The Nacirema are an exotic culture whose practices entail keeping death and disease at bay, and are nothing like American culture. B.) False 6. Which of the following primates are monogamous, lack sexual dimorphism, and have males that contribute much to the care of the offspring? C.) Gibbons 7. What is an ethnography? B.) A written or visual (film) description of a particular culture 8. Which of the following is not part of the scientific method? A.) Catastrophism 9. What is the purpose of archaeology? B.) To discover how past people lived their lives 10. Which of the following terms refers to a set of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a society? C.) Culture 11. What is anthropology? A.) The integrated study of human nature, society and the past 12. Race is a biological category. B.) False 13. Which type of UV ray from the sun stimulates the synthesis of Vitamin D, which is crucial for healthy bone development, and helps prevent rickets? C.) UVA rays 14. Why do populations differ genetically? B.) Because they possess different proportions of the same set of alleles 15. What does Mendelian Inheritance refer to? D.) The view that heredity is based on nonblending, singleparticle genetic inheritance 16. Science strives for objectivity but it can rarely if ever meet the goal of total objectivity because: D.) All of the above 17. In the Jonathan Marks article, why does he say that the statement “we are all apes” is cultural and not biological? B.) The statement favors ancestry over difference (or descent over modification) and favoring one over the other is a cultural decision. 18. What is taxonomy? B.) The biological classification of various kinds of organisms 19. Which of the following refers to a comparison of two or more cultures? D.) Ethnology 20. Prehistory refers to: C.) Any past culture that lacks written records 21. The Nacirema culture are most concerned with: C.) Preventing debilitation of the human body 22. All the genes in the bodies of all members of a given species is known as B.) Gene pool 23. Skin color has been found to be the one trait that is tied to other traits biologically, so it is a good predictor of characteristics such as intelligence, height and athleticism. B.) False 24. The function of dark skin color is to: A.) Protect against skin damage

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Anthropology 101 Dr. Meyers Exam 2 1. What is the term for classifying artifacts or fossils into a series of types on the basis of their similarities and differences compared to other objects of a similar kind and ordered in a chronological or development sequence? C.) Typological sequences 2. Evidence for bipedalism includes BUT which of the following? D.) A long and broad pelvis 3. A retromolar space is common in which group of hominids? D.) Neandertals 4. All material objects that are constructed by humans or nearhumans and revealed by archaeology is known as: C.) Archaeological record 5. Repatriation refers to A.) The return of skeletal remains and objects of cultural patrimony to native groups 6. How long ago did all humans live in bands? B.) 10,000 years ago 7. Which dating method measures the release of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes that are released when a substance is heated? B.) Thermoluminescence 8. Which species contains a Ushaped dental arcade, small canines, large molars, and about 50% have a diastema? C.) A. afarensis 9. The Acheulian tradition is characterized by: A.) Hand axe or biface 10. Archaeology excavation recovers two types of information. What are they? E.) A and C 11. The categories of band, tribe, chiefdom and state are sharply divided, mutually exclusive, and evolutionary. B.) False 12. How do foraging (band level) societies control population growth? D.) All of the above 13. Radiocarbon 14 dating measures the rate at which the unstable isotope C14 decays into nitrogen. This constant rate, 5,370 years for half of C14 to decay, is known as what? B.) Halflife 14. Of the following ancestral characteristics, which feature does NOT distinguish all primates? A.) Bipedalism 15. Early Homo species had an increased brain size, but this was NOT accompanied by an increase in body size. What does this signify? C.) The enlarged brain was a product of natural selection 16. Which objective of archaeology focuses on symbolic and cultural aspects of social structures and social relations? D.) Postprocessual or interpretative archaeology 17. The Native American Graves and Repatriation Act protects American Indian graves and cultural objects found on ALL land in the United States. B.) False 18. A subsistence strategy that is based on collecting a wide range of plants and animals by hunting, fishing, and gathering is known as what? C.) Broad spectrum foraging 19. In the article “The Challenge of Race in Historical Archaeology” the author suggests that C.) Race, ethnicity and class are closely intertwined and must be considered 20. Which human ancestor was probably the first to use fire? C.) H. erectus 21. Which type of archaeological survey detects buried features and gravitational anomalies using echo sounding or measuring the electrical resistivity of the soil? B.) Geographical survey 22. Gender archaeology allows archaeologists to recognize: D.) All of the above 23. Bandlevel societies keep female fertility low by doing what? A.) Breastfeeding for long periods of time, combined with high rate of physical activity and lowfat diet.

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