Biological/Physical Anthropology | Archaeology | Cultural Anthropology | Random Anthropology | SBU Anthropology Fun Facts |
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I live on Islands and I am critically endangered. I can live as long as 12 years and will have 1 infant per year. I am 4 oz, and only eat live animal prey. What am I?
What is a Tarsier (Tarsiidae)
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40% of my skeleton was found in pieces, I was declared an Australopithecus afarensis. From the looks of my skeleton, I died a full grown adult around 3-4 ft tall, I swing from trees and walked on two feet. What is my name?
Who is Lucy
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Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
What is Ethnocentrism
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This Epoch within the Cenozoic Era ranged from around 56 million years to 34 million years ago.
What is the Eocene Epoch.
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This professor received their BA from Boston and PhD from Harvard. Focuses on human origin archaeology, lithic (stone tool) technology, and reconstructing human behavior.
Dr. John Shea
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Wild animals are hunted by local people, frequently illegally, for food or to supply restaurants.
What is Bushmeat
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Discovered in 1911, seven thousand feet above sea level in Peru, this ancient civilization was made up of more than 150 buildings.
What is Machu Picchu
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The theory argues that material conditions, including technology, determine patterns of social organization, including religious principles
What is Cultural-Materialism
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This Stone age rock shelter in spain is decorated with panels of abstract signs, and hand stensils, including the famous "Gallery of the Hands".
What is El Castillo Cave
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This professor received their PhD from Stony Brook University. Interests focus on behavioral endocrinology and mating preferences. Observes geladas and Phayre leaf monkeys in their natural habitats.
Dr. Amy Lu
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I like to live alone in tropical rainforests, I can live to be 40 years old in the wild, I have a gestation period of 8 years, and I share 97% of your DNA. What am I?
What is an Orangutan
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This paleo-anthropologist had discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull. They also discovered a Robust zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. As well as the Laetoli footprints which were more than 3.75 million years old. Who am I?
Who is Mary Leaky
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The condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly exposed to an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes
What is Culture Shock
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This invention, created in Mesopotamia to assist with pottery development around 3500 BC, was given an alternative use 300 years later.
What is the Wheel
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This professor received their Phd from Berkeley. They are a Zooarchaeologist whos research focuses on social and economic practices in early agricultural societies.
Dr. Katheryn Twiss
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Period in which humans had domesticated plants and animals,
What is the Neolithic!
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Two german tourists once discovered a perfectly preserved corpse of this murder victim in September of 1991.
Who is Otzi the Iceman
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Shared ideas about how people should act - rules for acceptable behavior.
WHat are Cultural Norms
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This omnivorous, peaceful, southern Conco River inhabitants are on the IUCN Red List, threatened by habitat destruction and hunting.
What is the Bonobo
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This professor received their PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Research focuses on functional morphology and evolution of the primate locomotor skeleton.
Dr. Gabrielle Russo
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I have a flared zygomatic arch, pronounced saggital crest, and very thick bone density. Inhabited South Africa from the Early and Middle Pleistocene.
What is Paranthropus/Australopithecus robustus!
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An example of Sumerian architecture at its finest, this structure was the administrative center of this ancient city, in ancient Mesopotamia. A shrine of the moon god Nanna.
What is the Ziggurat of Ur
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Looking at the whole picture - factoring in genetics, biological evolution, prehistoric development of culture, language technology, and the diversity of modern cultures.
What is Holistic Approach
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These Mousterian tool users, inhabited Eurasia up until about 40,000 years ago.
What is Neanderthalensis
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This professor received their PhD from the University of Oxford. Research focuses on oral literature, kinship, belief, and ritual, fieldwork is done in Southeast Asia.
Dr. David Hicks
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