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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Status
Social Darwinism
Cultural Resource Assessment
classical archaeology
2. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Austrailia indians
Redistribution
Functionalism
Status
3. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Franz Boas
Unilineal Descent
Egyptian diffusion
Caste
4. 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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5. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Applied Anthropology
Polygamy
Balanced Reciprocity
Modernization
6. <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
Magnetic prospecting
Genetic Recombination
Upper Paleo period
3 types of excavation
7. Thinker: social stratification
exogamy
Africa
Weber
Adaptation
8. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Substantive Economics
Myth
Tributary Production
Fieldwork
9. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Mary Douglas Leakey
Nuclear Family
Bands & Tribes
Culture
10. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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11. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Benedict
Stimulus Diffusion
Mendelian population
12. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Phonetics
Genetic drift
Genotype
Hunter/Gatherers
13. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Nitrogenous Bases
Real Culture
Geophysical prospecting
Phases of rituals
14. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Egyptian diffusion
Semantics
Chiefdom
Real Culture
15. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
exogamy
WG Rivers
Neolithic Technology
Bands & Tribes
16. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Myth
Tributary Production
Middle Paleo Period
Polygamy
17. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Reciprocity
State
Levi-Strauss
Homo Habilis
18. (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
Neolithic Technology
Phases of rituals
Hunter/Gatherers
mana
19. 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)
Redistribution
Phratry
Ideal culture
Magnetic prospecting
20. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Monarchy
Gene migration
Africa
culture
21. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Civilization
Religion
Referencial Symbol
Ralph Lynton
22. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cultural Ecology
Fieldwork
Cargo Cult
Australopithecus
23. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Dead Sea scrolls
State
European farming
Alternatives
24. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
State
Family of procreation
Mayan indians
25. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
prosimians
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Syntax
Mesopotamia
26. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Anthropoids
State
DNA
Mendelian population
27. 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
Homo Erectus
Lower Paleo Period
Franz Boas
Cultural Evolution
28. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Genetic Recombination
Writing
North American Indians
29. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Social Class Manifestation
Nistri periscope
platyrrhini
EB Tylor
30. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Dating methods
Upper Paleo period
gene flow
Warlike people
31. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
WG Rivers
Olduvai Gorge
Religion
32. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Cargo Cult
Catal Huyak
sharp edges
Adaptation
33. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Caste
Condensed Symbol
Stimulus Diffusion
Cro-Magnon
34. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Yanomamo Feasting
Tribe
Technology development research
homonoids
35. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Symbol
Savagery
Tribe
36. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Phases of rituals
Franz Boas
DNA
37. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Writing
Ideal culture
McLennan
Absolute time
38. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Animism
Taboo
Genotypic Variations
Specialities
39. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Petrie
Homo Erectus
Africa
DNA
40. Relatives through marriage
Dead Sea scrolls
Sumerians
Affinal kin
Cognatic Descent
41. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Evaluation research
Intervention Anthropology
Emile Durkheim
Weber
42. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Catal Huyak
Syntax
Anthropoids
Cultural Evolution
43. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Social impact assessment
Polygamy
Taboo
44. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Cultivation
Homonids
Levirate
Radcliffe-Brown
45. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Ethnography
Dating methods
Cultural Evolution
homonoids
46. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Electromagnetic prospecting
Myth
Cultural Resource Assessment
Central American indians
47. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Sumerians
Barbarism
Poy Tang Lon
Production
48. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Universalities
War
Band
Allele
49. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Phonology
Kluckhohn
Caste
Mesopotamia
50. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Sumerians
Taboo
Functionalism
Negative Reciprocity