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SAMPEDRANO
GRACE VALLADARES
11TH A PREMED
MR. LIZANO
ANTROPOLOGY
CLASSWORK
2/9/2021
1. What is anthropology?
A// Anthropology is the study of what makes us human
3. What is an artifact?
A// An object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest.
4. What is a fossil?
A// Fossils are the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in
sediments, such as sand and mud, under ancient seas, lakes and rivers. Fossils also
include any preserved trace of life that is typically more than 10 000 years old.
1. Friedrich Ratzel
Ratzel played an important role in evolutionary
anthropology, contrasting it with the idea that
populations need to spread their cultural traits
beyond their original environment and that, in turn,
contacts with other people’s allow development.
3. Paul Broca
He founded the Anthropological Society of Paris
in 1859, the Revue d'Anthropologie in 1872, and
the School of Anthropology in Paris in 1876. He
made contributions to the science of cranial
anthropometry by developing many types of
measuring instruments and numerical indices.
4. Ellen Russell Emerson
American ethnologist, noted for her extensive
examinations of Native American cultures, especially
in comparison with other world cultures
6. Rudolf Virchow
In 1869 he founded the German Anthropological
Society, and in the same year he founded the Berlin
Society for Anthropology.
7. Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead is known for having studied the
nature of genera in isolated tribes. This
anthropologist was especially interested in
comparing cultural traits. Margaret Mead was one
of the pioneers of American cultural anthropology
and feminism in the second half of the 20th
century.
8. Louis Leakey
In 1961, Louis discovered a fossil
specimen of Homo habilis, about 2
million years old and with a greater
cranial capacity than
Australopithecus. In 1967 he found
the remains of another hominin,
Kenyapithecus africanus.