| Question | Answer |
| What are the standard anatomical directions? | Anterior - Posterior
Superior - Inferior
Medial - Lateral
Proximal - Distal |
| Joint types - Fibrous/Sutural | Fixed |
| Joint types - Cartilaginous | Semi-moveable |
| Joint types - Synovial | Extremely movable
Ball and Socket Joint |
| What does paleoanthropology examine? | Evolutionary relationships - Closest living relatives, ancestral Hominin lineages |
| What makes us human? | Bipedalism, Cranial capacity, culture. |
| What does bioarchaeology examine? | Human adaptation - Environment, disease, diet.
Demographic - populations structure, health, burial practices, culture. |
| How do anthropologists determine age of fossils? | Non-adults - bone epiphyseal fusion, dental eruption.
Adults - relative aging, degenerative changes. |
| How do anthropologists determine the sex of fossils? | Pevis - Sciatic notch, Sub-public angle
Skull - Supra-orbital rim, orbital Tori, mandible, mastoid process. |
| What can pathology and trauma of fossils show us? | Fracture, infection, skeletal response (bone growth & resorbtion), skeletal remodeling. |
