ANTH 204 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS
prehistory - ANSWER period of humanities past that predates the emergence of writing
Archaeology - ANSWER Reconstruction of past human behavior through the study of
material cultural remains and environmental data
Artifacts - ANSWER portable objects made and left behind by humans; symbols or
reflections of their culture
Culture - ANSWER culmination of inverted, taught, and learned patterns of behavior
charged by humans
Paleoanthropology - ANSWER study of bicultural evolution of the human species
through investigating human skeletal remains
Anthropology - ANSWER the holistic and integrative study of people
Anthropological linguistics - ANSWER study of human language in its cultural context
J Lightfoot - ANSWER calculated the date of creation at 3928 BC
, J Ussher - ANSWER this Irish Bishop calculated creation date 4004 BC (evening of Oct.
23)
Catastrophism - ANSWER earth changed dramatically with events like Noah's flood
J Hutton - ANSWER questioned age of earth, observed erosion and weathering of rock
on earth's surface and wrote Theory of Earth in 1788, (Uniformitarianism)
C Lyell - ANSWER wrote the Principles of Geology in 1830, geological processes shaped
earth's crust very slowly and gradually today and in the past
Unifoormitarianism - ANSWER the present is key to the past and the earth is millions of
years old
Special creation - ANSWER all organisms created for purpose of serving God
J Frere - ANSWER stone tools with extinct hippo bones in same stratigraphic layer,
Hoxne Site in England 1797
J Boucher de Perthes - ANSWER stone tools with extinct Bison, woolly mammoth, woolly
rhinoceros, and bear bones in same layer (Ice Age animals) Abbeville Site in France 1830
COMPLETE ANSWERS
prehistory - ANSWER period of humanities past that predates the emergence of writing
Archaeology - ANSWER Reconstruction of past human behavior through the study of
material cultural remains and environmental data
Artifacts - ANSWER portable objects made and left behind by humans; symbols or
reflections of their culture
Culture - ANSWER culmination of inverted, taught, and learned patterns of behavior
charged by humans
Paleoanthropology - ANSWER study of bicultural evolution of the human species
through investigating human skeletal remains
Anthropology - ANSWER the holistic and integrative study of people
Anthropological linguistics - ANSWER study of human language in its cultural context
J Lightfoot - ANSWER calculated the date of creation at 3928 BC
, J Ussher - ANSWER this Irish Bishop calculated creation date 4004 BC (evening of Oct.
23)
Catastrophism - ANSWER earth changed dramatically with events like Noah's flood
J Hutton - ANSWER questioned age of earth, observed erosion and weathering of rock
on earth's surface and wrote Theory of Earth in 1788, (Uniformitarianism)
C Lyell - ANSWER wrote the Principles of Geology in 1830, geological processes shaped
earth's crust very slowly and gradually today and in the past
Unifoormitarianism - ANSWER the present is key to the past and the earth is millions of
years old
Special creation - ANSWER all organisms created for purpose of serving God
J Frere - ANSWER stone tools with extinct hippo bones in same stratigraphic layer,
Hoxne Site in England 1797
J Boucher de Perthes - ANSWER stone tools with extinct Bison, woolly mammoth, woolly
rhinoceros, and bear bones in same layer (Ice Age animals) Abbeville Site in France 1830
