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a more rounded, globular skull - ✔✔One of the most defining features of a modern Homo sapiens
skull is
a wider variety of food - ✔✔Studies of preagricultural populations indicate that compared to people
today, Paleolithic people ate
Achondroplasia - ✔✔____ is a congenital bone pathology resulting from an abnormality in the
conversion of cartilage to bone and is the most common form of dwarfism.
african multiregionalism - ✔✔The high level of diversity in the fossils found at the sites of Jebel
Irhoud, Omo, and Herto in Africa support
all of the above (eating more calorie dense foods, sedentarism, epigenetic factors) - ✔✔What
contributes to obesity among humans today?
all of the above (handle bones over padded surfaces, avoid picking up a skull by placing fingers in the
eye orbits or through the cheekbones, respect the individual whose skeleton you work with and their
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relatives) - ✔✔When working with human remains it is important to
all of the above (understand environmental events that have occurred, estimate the relative amount of
time that has passed, understand more about how the body was placed and treated) - ✔✔It is
important for anthropologists to understand taphonomic processes in order to
an epidemiological transition - ✔✔A significant shift in the causes of morbidity and mortality among
humankind is known as
an expansion in modern human cultural complexity - ✔✔The Upper Paleolithic of Europe, is
associated with
analysis of the epiphyseal union - ✔✔Which of the following is used to estimate the age of subadults
(under the age of 18)?
ancient DNA analysis - ✔✔Advances in ____ have added to evidence that suggests a more complex
connection between modern Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals
antemortem - ✔✔Which of the following terms refers to trauma that occurs BEFORE death?
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as a stature range - ✔✔How do forensic anthropologists report the estimated height of an individual
based on skeletal remains?
Assimilation - ✔✔The merging of the Out of Africa model and the Multiregionalism model is called
the ____ model.
Assimilation Hypothesis - ✔✔The model of human origins that attempts to incorporate all lines of
evidence, including fossil and DNA evidence, is called the
at the advent of agriculture - ✔✔When did the first epidemiological transition take place?
Atlatl - ✔✔Which of the following is a hunting technology developed during the Upper Paleolithic?
blood splatter analysis - ✔✔Responsibilities of a forensic anthropologist may include all of the
following EXCEPT
bone and teeth - ✔✔In the case of ancient hominins, aDNA is often collected from
cannot manufacture our own nutrients - ✔✔Humans are not autotrophic, this means we
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cave art - ✔✔Chauvet and Lascaux in France are two sites famous for
Caves of Mount Carmel in Israel - ✔✔Skeletal remains and artifacts of the first-known group of
modern Homo sapiens living outside of Africa were found at what site?
close-range hunting of large mammals - ✔✔The extensive injuries sustained by Shanidar 1 and the
La Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal were most likely the result of
cold environments - ✔✔Many unique Neanderthal traits are adaptations to
commingled - ✔✔The term ____ is applied to any burial assemblage in which individual skeletons
are not placed into separate burials
commingled - ✔✔The term ____ is applied to any burial assemblage in which individual skeletons
are not placed into separate burials
context - ✔✔The immediate area in which human remains were found, including the soil,other
organic matter, objects, or artifacts surrounding the remains, are regarded as the
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