Physical anthropology exam 1
Hominids - correct answer ✔✔humans and other creatures that walk upright, on 2 legs
What is anthropology? - correct answer ✔✔the study of human kind
Subfields of Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔cultural, linguistic, physical, forensic
Cultural Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of people's communities, behaviors, beliefs, and
institutions, including how people make meaning as they live, work, and play together
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
Linguistic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔study of the organ of language and speech
Physical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of humans from a biological perspective,
particularly focused on human evolution
primantology - correct answer ✔✔study of nonhuman primates
Osteology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the skeleton
Paleopathology - correct answer ✔✔study of disease and injury in skeletons from archaeological sites
Forensic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of human remains applied to a legal context
when do you need an forensic anthropologist - correct answer ✔✔-when decomposition is advanced
-when the soft tissue is too badly damaged by the coroner
, five objectives that the anthropological needs to answer to identify - correct answer ✔✔1. determine
demographic characteristics
2. Identity trauma
3. determine TOD(time of death)
4.locating or identity remains at the site
5. use skeletal features to make identification of an individual
Police questions - correct answer ✔✔1. are the bones animal or human
2. one individual or multiple
3. Contemporary or historical
4. manner of death
medical examiner need forensic anthropologists when: - correct answer ✔✔1. cannot determine
demographic of individual
2. cannot determine time since death
3. cannot determine manner and cause of death
data is gathered by: - correct answer ✔✔1. ostemetric analysis
3. Historical analysis
3. chemical analysis
4. visual inspection
Adipocere*** - correct answer ✔✔fatty substance occurring in corpses left in moist areas
Parietal bone***** - correct answer ✔✔cranial bone forming part of the side and top of the head
temporal bone*** - correct answer ✔✔on the sides and the base of the cranium and lateral to the
temporal lobe of the cerebrum
Hominids - correct answer ✔✔humans and other creatures that walk upright, on 2 legs
What is anthropology? - correct answer ✔✔the study of human kind
Subfields of Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔cultural, linguistic, physical, forensic
Cultural Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of people's communities, behaviors, beliefs, and
institutions, including how people make meaning as they live, work, and play together
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
Linguistic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔study of the organ of language and speech
Physical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of humans from a biological perspective,
particularly focused on human evolution
primantology - correct answer ✔✔study of nonhuman primates
Osteology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the skeleton
Paleopathology - correct answer ✔✔study of disease and injury in skeletons from archaeological sites
Forensic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of human remains applied to a legal context
when do you need an forensic anthropologist - correct answer ✔✔-when decomposition is advanced
-when the soft tissue is too badly damaged by the coroner
, five objectives that the anthropological needs to answer to identify - correct answer ✔✔1. determine
demographic characteristics
2. Identity trauma
3. determine TOD(time of death)
4.locating or identity remains at the site
5. use skeletal features to make identification of an individual
Police questions - correct answer ✔✔1. are the bones animal or human
2. one individual or multiple
3. Contemporary or historical
4. manner of death
medical examiner need forensic anthropologists when: - correct answer ✔✔1. cannot determine
demographic of individual
2. cannot determine time since death
3. cannot determine manner and cause of death
data is gathered by: - correct answer ✔✔1. ostemetric analysis
3. Historical analysis
3. chemical analysis
4. visual inspection
Adipocere*** - correct answer ✔✔fatty substance occurring in corpses left in moist areas
Parietal bone***** - correct answer ✔✔cranial bone forming part of the side and top of the head
temporal bone*** - correct answer ✔✔on the sides and the base of the cranium and lateral to the
temporal lobe of the cerebrum
