Final Test

Question 1

Dresden Codex

Answer 1

A copy of an earlier Mayan text used to decipher the Mayan calendar

Question 2

Easter Island environment

Answer 2

Indigenous population built large monuments and possibly used all the remaining trees on the island. They also could have carelessly used all the natural resources available and caused environmental damage

Question 3

End of world Maya 2012

Answer 3

This is a doomsday myth popularized by the media

Question 4

Inca Masonry

Answer 4

Intricate and precise masonry was used by the inca in South America often people sensationalize and over analyze and associate with wild ideas of aliens

Question 5

Stonehenge

Answer 5

Prehistoric monument in England, possible burial grounds and religious significance. It is a large circular stone structure, many other wooden and smaller stone henge have been found

Question 6

Papua New Guinea Ritual warfare

Answer 6

War is played out almost weekly more close to a sport. Used to display courage

Question 7

Jim Jones

Answer 7

Founder and leader of people’s temple. Best known for mass suicide in Jonestown Guyana

Question 8

Teotihucan

Answer 8

Contains some of the largest pyramid structures in the America’s. a major population center of ancient unsure today of the people who built it.

Question 9

Tarim mummies

Answer 9

Naturally desiccated corpses in Taklamakin desert of north western china. Believed to be European in ancestry

Question 10

Dental anthropology

Answer 10

Scientific study of people with their living and extinct primate relatives using teeth

Question 11

Beaker culture in Europe

Answer 11

Prehistoric Western European people’s defined by a common pottery style with an inverted bell shape

Question 12

NAGPRA tribal relations with archeologists

Answer 12

Native American graves protection and repatriation act. 1990 used to protect the graves of native Americans

Question 13

Strontium isotopes

Answer 13

Used to map geographic movements of species and local vs non-local patterns

Question 14

Maya Calendar

Answer 14

260 day calendar later combined with a 365 day calendar with a 52 year cycle and smaller 13 day and 20 day cycles. It is the the calendar system used by the Mayan people

Question 15

Maya hieroglyphs

Answer 15

More logographic than hieroglyphic is the writing system of they Mayan people. Very hard to initially decipher

Question 16

Yax K’uk Mo’

Answer 16

Possible the first ruler of Copan a major Maya civilization. Believed not to be of the local area.

Question 17

Easter Island Maoi

Answer 17

Human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people. Many set around the island perimeter

Question 18

Yanomano

Answer 18

Indigenous people of the rainforest. Often studied as primitive people however there is some controversy over influences caused by the studies of them.

Question 19

Brain Drain

Answer 19

Human capital flight a large scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge.

Question 20

Diaspora

Answer 20

The movement or scattering away of people from an established or ancestral homeland

Question 21

Mitochondrial Eve

Answer 21

The matrilineal most recent common ancestor of modern humans

Question 22

Medical anthropology

Answer 22

An interdisciplinary field which studies human health and disease, health care systems, and bio cultural adaptations

Question 23

Cultural Resource Management

Answer 23

Phase I -looks for sites by shovel test and pedestrian survey
Phase II -determine if site is significant small test trench & map
Phase III -mitigation or full excavation where data is removed
Monitoring