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Physical Anthropology Exam 1Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the holistic study of human beings
The 4 Sub fields of Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Cultural, Archaeology, Linguistic,
Biological/Physical
Cultural Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of human societies, especially in a cross cultural
context.
Ethnography - correct answer ✔✔in depth study of a particular culture
ethnology - correct answer ✔✔the comparative study of ethnographic data
Applied Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the application to solve practical problems
(non-academic, in the field, e.g. medical anthropology)
Culture - correct answer ✔✔strategies humans use to adapt to their environment
-it is learned - begins at birth
- predisposition to assimilate culture profoundly influenced by biological factors
archaeology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the material culture of past peoples
(ex: artifacts and material culture)
(prehistoric, historic, etc.)
Linguistic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of speech and language; and it's history and use`
Physical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of humans as biological organisms, considered in
an evolutionary framework
,or
a biological science that deals with adaptations, variability, and evolution of human beings and their
living and fossil relatives
Biocultural Evolution - correct answer ✔✔biology makes culture possible - culture further influences the
direction of biological evolution
...Over time, culture and biology interacted in such a way that humans are said to be the result of
biocultural evolution
Father of Physical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Blumenbadk (early 1800s)
Blumenbadk - correct answer ✔✔(Father of Physical Anthropology)
- he was a physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist
- father of craniometry
Paul Broca - correct answer ✔✔[1824-1880]
craniometry
Franz Boaz - correct answer ✔✔[1858-1942]
against hierarchical racism; environment can influence ALL
Ales Hrdlicka - correct answer ✔✔1st. Forensic Anthropologist at the Smithsonian
[1869-1943]
Earnest Hooten - correct answer ✔✔measured criminal skulls [1887-1954]
, Who formed the American Association of Physical Anthropologists? - correct answer ✔✔Sherwood
Washburn in 1930.
Sherwood Washburn - correct answer ✔✔formed the AAPA in 1930 @ 18 years old
revitalized Physical Anth.
trained anthropologists
The Four Subfields of Physical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Paleoanthropology, Paleopathology,
(Skeletal) Osteology, and Forensic Anthropology
Skeletal Biology or Human Osteology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the skeleton and the patterns and
processes of human growth, physiology, and development
Paleoanthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their
primate kin
Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔✔the study of disease in ancient human
populations--- the study of human remains from archaeological sites
Forensic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔they study of human remains applied to a legal context
Primatology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the non-human primates and their anatomy, genetics, and
behavior and ecology
Human Biology - correct answer ✔✔Deals with human growth/development, adaptation to
environmental extremes, and genetics
Adaptations - correct answer ✔✔physiological response to environmentally induced stress
Molecular Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔cloning and sequencing methods to identify genes in
humans and nonhuman primates
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