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DSST General Anthropology

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1. New family you form when you marry and have children.






2. Traces back to ONE person






3. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






4. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






5. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






6. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






7. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






8. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






9. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






10. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






11. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






12. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






13. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






14. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






15. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






16. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture






17. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






18. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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19. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






20. Relatives through marriage






21. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






22. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






23. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






24. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






25. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






26. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar






27. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






28. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






29. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






30. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






31. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






32. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






33. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






34. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






35. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






36. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






37. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






38. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






39. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






40. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






41. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






42. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






43. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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44. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






45. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






46. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






47. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






48. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






49. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






50. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).