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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Traces back to ONE person






2. Things all people do the same way (language)






3. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






4. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






5. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






6. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






7. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






8. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






9. 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






10. Thinkers: linguistics






11. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






12. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






13. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






14. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






15. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






16. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






17. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






18. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






19. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






20. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






21. 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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22. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






23. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






24. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






25. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






26. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






27. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful






28. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






29. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






30. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






31. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






32. Invented smelting of iron






33. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






39. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






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






42. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






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






44. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






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






46. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






47. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






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






49. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






50. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology