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DSST General Anthropology

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1. <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






2. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






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






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






5. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






6. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






7. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






8. Determining the success of a project






9. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






10. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






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






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






13. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






14. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






15. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






16. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






17. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






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






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






20. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






21. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






22. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






23. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






24. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






25. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






26. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






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






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






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






30. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






31. Collecting community data for use by development planners






32. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






33. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






34. (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)






35. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






36. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






37. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






38. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






39. Thinker: social stratification






40. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






41. 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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42. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






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






44. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






45. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






46. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






47. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






48. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






49. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






50. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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