ANTH 101 Fall 2013Final Comprehensive Exam Study GuideTest-taking strategies:Begin by studying this last third of the course, since the last test. Half the final exam is on the last third. As always, if you can define the words on the vocabulary list, you are guaranteed at least a C grade, if not better. If you do not know the words on the vocabulary lists, you will not pass the final exam. Given that you attended classes throughout the semester and took notes, to prepare for the final exam quiz yourself on the Vocabulary Lists for Parts I, II, and III (thank goodness you wrote in a definition after each word as we went along during the semester). Especially review this final third of the semester, since our last test. Review Worksheets 9 and 10. Review each “review” PowerPoint in presentation mode, testing yourself on the answers. Take any online Practice Quizzes dealing with this last third of the semester.Then study your previous tests and online worksheets. Re-take the earlier online practice quizzes to test yourself. If you missed a question on any of the above, look up the correct answer and write it out. About half of the final exam will be on just the final third of the course, but half will be comprehensive. The comprehensive section will revisit questions and issues covered in the first two tests, although the exact same questions are unlikely.The comprehensive portion of the final exam is likely to focus on the major points one would hope to gain from a course like this. It will also assume that you learned the vocabulary throughout the semester. It has been my experience that most people who receive an A on the final exam have taken all the Practice Quizzes. Those people who flunk the final exam have rarely looked at even a single Practice Quiz.Major Points You Should Have Learned:1. What is the scientific method?2. What is anthropology and what do anthropologists do?3. What ethical guidelines are important to anthropologists?4. What is the difference between scientific creationism and the scientific approach?5. What is evolution? What is natural selection? Why does evolution occur?6. What makes us human? When and where do we find the first humans and what distinguishes them from other primates?7. What sets primates apart from other mammals? What are the characteristics of aprimate? How do prosimians differ from anthropoids?8. Why study the social behavior or other primates – what does that have to do with humans? What behavioral characteristics do great apes share with us?9. What dating techniques are appropriate for different situations and what materials dothey date? Which are relative and which are absolute techniques?10. Name and define the two models on the rate of evolution. Give specific fossil examples to illustrate each model.11. Summarize the three geographical models for the evolution of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. What fossil/archaeological/modern genetic evidence supports a model?12. Explain the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis and its significance for the evolution of the species Homo erectus.13. What is the proper way to write the genus and species of an organism? What is yours?14. List, in order from oldest to most recent, the genera and species of hominids that are our probable ancestors. What stone tools characterize each?15. What trends through time do we see within the genus Homo?16. What controversies are linked with the peopling of the New World?17. Explain the concept of race as it applies to humans. Are there universally recognized human races – why or why not?18. What controversies are linked with the colonization of Australia?19. Be able to list the characteristics of a civilization (a state-level society). What and where were the four earliest?20. How does the body change in association with bipedalism?21. List, from oldest to most recent, the epochs of the Tertiary period. List, from oldest tomost recent, the epochs of the Quaternary period.22. List the major cultural periods in Europe vs. eastern North America and link themto major cultural developments.23. What hominids coexisted at any time? Must be able to list two pairs by species (to list species, you must give genus and species, written correctly).24. Be able to link hominid names with their distinctive skulls by morphological clues.25. Be able to describe how ideology (religion) can be discerned in the archaeologicalrecord (archaeologists can’t see ideas, but what CAN they see that informs usabout peoples’ beliefs?).26. Understand what is a hominoid vs a hominid! Know what Order we belong to.27. What basic types of social systems have we talked about? What are the characteristicsof each? (egalitarian versus stratified, hierarchical; chiefdom versus state)Major models, hypotheses, theories to be able to understand/describe (what does each say, what does each apply to, what evidence would support each?).1. Multiregionalism vs Recent Out-of-Africa vs Mostly Out of Africa models2. Evolution, as well as Natural Selection3. Expensive Tissue hypothesis4. Gradualism vs Punctuated equilibriumBe able to compare and contrast the skeletons of the following pairs:Ardipithecus anamensis vs Australopithecus afarensisAustralopithecus afarensis vs. Homo habilisHomo habilis vs Homo erectusHomo erectus vs Homo neanderthalensisHomo neanderthalensis vs Homo sapiens sapiensHow your grades will be figured:Movies: four movies at 10 points each, multiply by .625 for possible score of 25.Worksheets: 1 pt off for first late worksheet, 2 for second, 3 for third, and further late worksheets are not accepted. Worksheet total score is multiplied by 0.75 for a possible score of 75.As of Friday, Dec. 6th, it is too late to make up missed work. NO exceptions.To figure your grade going in to the final: divide your current total by 200 to see what percentage you have. To figure what score you need to make on your Final to achieve a particular grade, subtract your current score from your target final score to see what you minimally need to make on the Final exam. See syllabus for what scores are given what grades.CHECK YOUR SCORES on Blackboard by noon on Friday, Dec. 6: contact your professor about Test or Worksheet problems; contact your TA about movie/xtra credit problems (grades not entered).REVIEW SESSION to have questions answered: Thursday, Dec. 12 th , 1-2 pm, Hamilton 318.FINAL EXAM: Friday, Dec. 13, from 9:00-11:30 in our regular classroom. PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT
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