ANTH 1210 Exam 1 questions with 100%
correct answers graded
Absolute dating (chronometric dating) - correct answer ✔✔Dating methods based
on laboratory techniques that assign age in years to material evidence
Acheulean tool tradition - correct answer ✔✔A Lower Paleolithic stone-tool
tradition associated with Homo erectus and characterized by stone bifaces, or
"hand axes."
Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔(1) The mutual shaping of organisms and their
environments; (2) the shaping of useful features of an organism by natural
selection for the function they now perform.
Agriculture - correct answer ✔✔The systematic modification of the environments
of plants and animals to increase their productivity and usefulness.
Alleles - correct answer ✔✔All the different forms that a particular gene might
take
Analogous - correct answer ✔✔A comparison between two cultural practices or
institutions that are not necessarily related.
Anthropoids - correct answer ✔✔Includes New World monkeys, Old World
monkeys. Typically have dry noses, detached upper lips, a similarly structured
placenta (and heavier infants), and a structure in their skulls called the
"postorbital partition."
,Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔The study of human nature, human society,
and the human past
Applied anthropology - correct answer ✔✔The subfield of anthropology in which
anthropologists use information gathered from the other anthropological
specialties to propose solutions to practical problems.
Arboreal - correct answer ✔✔This theory suggests that primates evolved from
ancestors that adapted to life in trees
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔A cultural anthropology of the human past
involving the analysis of material remains left behind by earlier societies.
Archaic cultures - correct answer ✔✔
Ardipithicus - correct answer ✔✔-Noteworthy hominin fossils coming from Africa,
some dating back into the Miocene.
-Ardipithecus kadabba: 5.8-5.2 million year old
-Ardipithecus ramidus: 5.8-4.4 million years old. Remnants found of a relatively
complete skeleton which apparently could walk bipedally on the ground, although
in a manner different from llater members of the genus Homo. Apparently lived in
a wooded environment
Ardipithecus ramidus - correct answer ✔✔The fossils of this have been
interpreted as belonging to a bipedal hominoid living in a forested environment,
which challenges the traditional notion that bipedalism evolved in an open,
savannah environment.
, Artifacts - correct answer ✔✔Objects that have been deliberately and intelligently
shaped by human or near-human activity.
Australopithicus - correct answer ✔✔The genus to which taxonomists place most
early hominins showing skeletal evidence of bipedalism.
Binocular vision - correct answer ✔✔The ability of an organism to use both eyes
simultaneously to perceive a single image, providing a key advantage in depth
perception, and is particularly studied in primates, including humans, due to its
significant role in their evolution and adaptation to their environment, especially
for activities like arboreal locomotion and foraging; essentially, the closer the eyes
are positioned on the front of the head, the greater the degree of binocular vision
and depth perception an animal possesses
Bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔✔The study of bones and other biological
materials found in archaeological remains in order to provide information about
human life or the environment in the past.
Biological anthropology - correct answer ✔✔The specialty of anthropology that
looks at human beings as biological organisms and tries to discover what
characteristics make them different from other organisms and what characteristics
they share.
Bipedalism - correct answer ✔✔Walking on two feet rather than four.
Blade tools - correct answer ✔✔Stone tools that are at least twice as long as they
are wide. Traditionally associated with anatomically modern humans who have
correct answers graded
Absolute dating (chronometric dating) - correct answer ✔✔Dating methods based
on laboratory techniques that assign age in years to material evidence
Acheulean tool tradition - correct answer ✔✔A Lower Paleolithic stone-tool
tradition associated with Homo erectus and characterized by stone bifaces, or
"hand axes."
Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔(1) The mutual shaping of organisms and their
environments; (2) the shaping of useful features of an organism by natural
selection for the function they now perform.
Agriculture - correct answer ✔✔The systematic modification of the environments
of plants and animals to increase their productivity and usefulness.
Alleles - correct answer ✔✔All the different forms that a particular gene might
take
Analogous - correct answer ✔✔A comparison between two cultural practices or
institutions that are not necessarily related.
Anthropoids - correct answer ✔✔Includes New World monkeys, Old World
monkeys. Typically have dry noses, detached upper lips, a similarly structured
placenta (and heavier infants), and a structure in their skulls called the
"postorbital partition."
,Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔The study of human nature, human society,
and the human past
Applied anthropology - correct answer ✔✔The subfield of anthropology in which
anthropologists use information gathered from the other anthropological
specialties to propose solutions to practical problems.
Arboreal - correct answer ✔✔This theory suggests that primates evolved from
ancestors that adapted to life in trees
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔A cultural anthropology of the human past
involving the analysis of material remains left behind by earlier societies.
Archaic cultures - correct answer ✔✔
Ardipithicus - correct answer ✔✔-Noteworthy hominin fossils coming from Africa,
some dating back into the Miocene.
-Ardipithecus kadabba: 5.8-5.2 million year old
-Ardipithecus ramidus: 5.8-4.4 million years old. Remnants found of a relatively
complete skeleton which apparently could walk bipedally on the ground, although
in a manner different from llater members of the genus Homo. Apparently lived in
a wooded environment
Ardipithecus ramidus - correct answer ✔✔The fossils of this have been
interpreted as belonging to a bipedal hominoid living in a forested environment,
which challenges the traditional notion that bipedalism evolved in an open,
savannah environment.
, Artifacts - correct answer ✔✔Objects that have been deliberately and intelligently
shaped by human or near-human activity.
Australopithicus - correct answer ✔✔The genus to which taxonomists place most
early hominins showing skeletal evidence of bipedalism.
Binocular vision - correct answer ✔✔The ability of an organism to use both eyes
simultaneously to perceive a single image, providing a key advantage in depth
perception, and is particularly studied in primates, including humans, due to its
significant role in their evolution and adaptation to their environment, especially
for activities like arboreal locomotion and foraging; essentially, the closer the eyes
are positioned on the front of the head, the greater the degree of binocular vision
and depth perception an animal possesses
Bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔✔The study of bones and other biological
materials found in archaeological remains in order to provide information about
human life or the environment in the past.
Biological anthropology - correct answer ✔✔The specialty of anthropology that
looks at human beings as biological organisms and tries to discover what
characteristics make them different from other organisms and what characteristics
they share.
Bipedalism - correct answer ✔✔Walking on two feet rather than four.
Blade tools - correct answer ✔✔Stone tools that are at least twice as long as they
are wide. Traditionally associated with anatomically modern humans who have
