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Physical Anthropology Lab / M. Waters
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE (75 points)
The exam covers Labs 7-12, lectures and Chapters 7, 8, 10, 13 & 14 of the textbook. Use lab handouts as study
guides, and obtain any missed handouts from the instructor and missed lecture notes from a classmate.
BE PREPARED (bring a Scantron 882 and pencil), and BE ON TIME (your exam will be marked down 5% if you’re
10 or more minutes late).
The exam will consist of multiple-choice, true/false, matching and fill-in-the-blank questions on the topics below:
LAB 7 / CHAPTER 10 (p. 185-193): Primate Skeletal Anatomy
 Primate locomotion patterns (length of hindlimbs relative to forelimbs)
 Intermembral Index: what it measures and represents
 Distinguishing primate cranial features as compared to other mammals (e.g. pertaining to vision,
cranial size, snout, base of skull)
 Primate classification (traditional approach): Suborders Anthropoidea and Prosimii, Infraorders
Platyrrhini and Catarrhini, Superfamily Hominoidea, and New World Monkey families (Callithricidae
and Cebidae)
 Cranial and dental features associated with the suborders, infraorders, superfamily and families
above
 Sexually dimorphic traits of primate males and females
LAB 8 / CHAPTER 7: Human Osteology
 Functions of the skeleton
 Identify and name the following on the human skeleton: vertebrae (three types), sternum, clavicle,
scapula, arm bones, leg bones, pelvic bones (including the three parts of the innominate bone), hand
bones (three types), foot bones (three types), skull (only those parts included in the lab)
LAB 9 / CHAPTER 8: Forensic Anthropology – Sex Determination
 Pelvic anthroposcopy: identify sex by observing classic male/female traits and Phenice traits
 Cranial anthroposcopy: recognize classic male and female traits (and identify and name the following
features: occipital protuberance, ascending ramus, mastoid, supraorbital ridge)
 Postcranial metrics: identify the features of the humerus and scapula measured by forensic
anthropologists to determine sex, and determine the sex of a sternum
LAB 10 / CHAPTER 8: Forensic Anthropology – Estimating Age and Ancestry
 Recognize and identify the following skeletal features assessed by anthropologists to estimate age:
medial clavicle, os pubis and anterior iliac crest
 Identify and name the nasal features measured by anthropologists to determine ancestry
 Determine ancestry by observing dental features
 Antemortem, perimortem and postmortem trauma (the changes to bone recognized by forensic
anthropologists)
LAB 11 / CHAPTER 13: Early Hominids
 Recognize and identify anatomical adaptations to bipedalism (i.e. skeletal and cranial features of the
Family Hominidae as compared to apes)
 Identify specimens of the Australopithecus and Paranthropus based on distinguishing cranial and
dental features
LAB 12 / CHAPTER 14: The Genus Homo
 Features of early Homo as compared to Australopithecus (such as A. africanus)
 Identify the following species based on distinguishing cranial features: H. habilus/rudolfensis, H.
ergaster/erectus, H. neanderthalensis, H. sapiens