Memorize these and you could recognize 31.8% of all Anthropology clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a Neanderthal | 5 | In 2016 it was claimed that these prehistoric ice-age humans were wiped out because modern man was more artistic |
| 2 | animism | 3 | It's the belief that natural objects & phenomena have souls |
| 3 | rite of passage | 3 | 3-word term for recurring traditions in a society marking important transition points, like baptisms, marriages or funerals |
| 4 | a nuclear family | 3 | This term for a basic social unit of parents & their offspring sounds like they are radioactive |
| 5 | woodpeckers | 2 | To a Yurok Indian of the Pacific NW, the scalps of these birds that eat insects in trees were a form of wealth |
| 6 | totem poles | 2 | The carvings on these tall objects may show a Tlingit family history |
| 7 | Thor Heyerdahl | 2 | In 1970 he again tried to cross the Atlantic in a reed boat; his first attempt in 1969 failed |
| 8 | Symbols | 2 | Victor Turner's "The Forest of" these basic anthro items says they can stand for many concepts, as the milk tree does for the Ndembu |
| 9 | skulls | 2 | Johann Blumenback determined from his collection of these body parts that there were 5 races of humans |
| 10 | polyandry | 2 | Polygamy is divided into polygyny, having many wives, and this, having many husbands |
| 11 | Peking Man | 2 | It's the more familiar name of the type of Homo erectus once classified as sinanthropus |
| 12 | Lucy | 2 | At 40% intact, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensisskeleton with this nickname is remarkably complete |
| 13 | Japan | 2 | Ruth Benedict's study of this country began at the behest of the U.S. Office of War Information in the 1940s |
| 14 | Homo erectus | 2 | Dubois found the first fossils IDed as this species of our genus; later, finding a femur convinced him that it walked upright |
| 15 | Cro-Magnon | 2 | Some 15,000 years ago, this subspecies of modern men painted a cave wall in Altamira, Spain |
| 16 | childbirth | 2 | Anthropologists in the '60s like Sheila Kitzinger said this life event was overmedicalized & suggested trying it the natural way |
| 17 | body language | 2 | Kinesics is nonverbal communication or this "language" for which Cosmopolitan has an online decoder |
| 18 | a hunter-gatherer | 2 | "Foragers" is equivalent to this 2-part term to refer to societies that gather food readily available |