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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Myth
Writing
Homo Habilis
Schliemann
2. 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.
Mutagen
Physical Anthropology
primates
Status
3. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Biosphere
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural relativism
4. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Class
Conspicuous Consumption
Polygamy
5. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Noosphere
Middle east farming
old world monkeys
Directed Cultural Change
6. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Allele
Cultural Resource Assessment
South American indians
Phonology
7. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Religion
Austrailia indians
Levy-Bruhl
endogamy
8. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Divorce
Emile Durkheim
Malinowski
Allele
9. 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
Divorce
Structuralism
Lower Paleo Period
American farming
10. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Petrie
Diffusion
Homonids
Birth of Anthropology
11. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
American farming
gene flow
Nuclear Family
Social Darwinism
12. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Lower Paleo Period
Policy Research
Family of procreation
polished stone
13. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Symbol
Semantics
Class
Feudal System
14. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
prosimians
Stratigraphy
Ritual
Geerts
15. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Dead Sea scrolls
Elsie Parsons
Band
Theory of organic evolution
16. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Greeks
Magnetic prospecting
Market Exchange
Stratigraphy
17. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Balanced Reciprocity
Yanomamo
Absolute time
Family of orientation
18. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Migration of Erectus
homonoids
Java Man
19. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
European farming
Geophysical prospecting
Anthropometry
20. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Weber
Syntax
Real Culture
American farming
21. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Ritual
Substantive Economics
Potlatch
22. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Migration of Erectus
Generalized Reciprocity
Conspicuous Consumption
23. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Sondages
Cro-Magnon
Unilineal Descent
Syntax
24. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Java Man
Semantics
Egyptian diffusion
Formal Economics
25. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Modernization
Cultural Evolution
Mendel's second principle of genetics
26. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Kinship
endogamy
Electromagnetic prospecting
WG Rivers
27. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Stratigraphy
Technology development research
platyrrhini
Animal domestication
28. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
McLennan
Levy-Bruhl
Phases of rituals
Australopithecus
29. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Cargo Cult
Paleolithic period
Nuclear Family
Individual Peculiarities
30. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Cultural Ecology
Cultural relativism
Status
Aztec indians
31. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Taboo
DNA
Myth
Yanomamo
32. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Levirate
EB Tylor
Alternatives
Allele
33. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Referencial Symbol
Cargo Cult
South American indians
babylonians
34. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Armchair Anthropologists
Java Man
Elsie Parsons
Gens
35. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Egyptology
Geosphere
radiometric dating
Franz Boas
36. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Dating methods
Modernization
babylonians
Religion
37. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Structuralism
Neanderthals
Chiefdom
Levirate
38. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Genotypic Variations
Phonology
Modernization
Levirate
39. Holistic study of humanity.
Mythology
Anthropology
Aztec indians
African Economic Organization
40. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Diffusion
Adaptation
Aztec indians
Petrie
41. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Functionalism
Peking Man
Savagery
Biosphere
42. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Kindred
Diffusion
Tribe
43. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Reciprocity
3 types of excavation
Intervention Anthropology
44. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Cultural Resource Assessment
Referencial Symbol
Industrialization
Mythology
45. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
endogamy
African Economic Organization
Allele frequency
Modernization
46. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Kroeber
War
Cargo Cult
Nistri periscope
47. 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
Phonology
Family of orientation
Neanderthals
Egyptology
48. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Warlike people
Kroeber
Migration of Erectus
Substantive Economics
49. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Affinal kin
Kindred
Mendelian population
radiometric dating
50. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Gene
Functionalism
Religion
Ethnology