BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM
Q&A
Cultural anthropology studies human societies from a cross-cultural perspective and
uses _______ to describe observational accounts - Answer-Ethnography
Archaeologists study the culture of a society through _______ that are left behind -
Answer-Artifacts
A prehistoric archaeologists is primarily concerned with the time period before _______
- Answer-Recorded written history
The material culture of past societies is used in _______ to study how people used to
live - Answer-Archaeology
_______ is the study of human remains applied to historical and criminal contexts -
Answer-Forensic anthropology
A(n) _______ examines the bones and fossils of ancient human populations for
evidence of disease - Answer-Paleopathologist
Within biological anthropology, a _______ studies nonhuman primates to obtain a better
understanding of human evolution - Answer-Primatologist
_______ uses a genetic approach to human evolution science to understand genomic
differences between humans and nonhuman primates - Answer-Molecular anthropology
What type of researcher would you expect to investigate a bone fragment unearthed on
riverbank - Answer-Osteologist
In Europe, most physical (biological) anthropologists were initially _______ who were
interested in anatomy - Answer-Physicians
Understanding human behavior became a critical component of early physical
anthropology. It began by observing the behavior of ________ - Answer-Non-human
primates
Physical anthropology taught in the 1930s and 1940s incorporated primate anatomy,
behavior and _______ to more completely understand humanity - Answer-Ecology
When one uses chemistry to help date a hominid fossil or genetics to understand
ancient disease, this would be considered a(n) _______ approach - Answer-
Multidisciplinary
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