Anthropology Final Review

• Study of artifacts
• Anthropology

North

5cm at a time

older from bottom up

anything living

opposite of stratification

fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found

organic material

50,000 years

very familiar with culture being studied

Skull

Homo-habilis

Cro-magnon

Homo sapiens

ancestor of modern humans

Interstratification of modern day humans and neanderthal theory

cranium, mandible, vertebral column, sternum, innominate, ribs, femurs, humerus

• Proximal: nearest to point of attachment or origin
• Distal: farthest from point of attachment or origin

"Lucy"

Hoax where a jaw bone from an orangutan was put on a modern day human skull to pose as a remarkable discovery of early humans

• Polyandry: having more than one husband at a time
• Polygyny: having more than one wife at a time

ritual event that marks a person's progress from one status to another

• Linear: starting point and ending point. Each action dictates if you reach end...Western society
• Cyclical: Eastern society