The test will include information from the following lectures and readings:
Introduction to Anthropology (Week 4: Friday)
The History of Anthropology (Week 5: Monday)
Forensic Anthropology (Week 5: Wednesday)*
*We did not get to the end of this lecture, you only need to know the information through slide
16 (identity markers- height)
Primatology (Week 5: Friday)
Haviland et al. 2005: Biology and Evolution
Craig et al 2013: The Primates
Important terms/concepts
What are the different things that biological anthropologists do?
Primatology and primatologists- what do they study and how?
Fossilization
Ideas behind taxonomy and how we organize the world
The Great Chain of Being
Linnaeus and his classificatory system
Evolution
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Lamarck
Charles Darwin- natural selection and descent with modification
Gregor Mendel and his work
Homologous and Analogous structures
Scientific Racism
Monogenism/Polygenism
Anthropometry/Craniometry
Ales Hrdlicka
Kennewick Man/The Ancient One
What is forensic anthropology and what do forensic anthropologists do?
Osteology
Morphology
Metrical
Taphonomy
T. Dale Stewart
Bone remodeling, Resorption, and Osteogenesis/Ossification
Bone Cells
Epiphyseal plate
Fontanelle
Connective Tissues
Identity markers for sex- have a general idea of things we look for to indicate sex (what body parts do
we look at), but you won’t need the specifics of females having rounder eye orbits or anything that
detailed
Identity markers for age- again, know generally that for children we look at wrist bones and teeth, for
older adolescents and young adults we can look at fusion of the epiphyseal plates- you don’t need to
know specific ages
Height can be identified using long bones
Metatheria, Protoheria, and Eutheria- the three groups of mammals
