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DSST General Anthropology
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1. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Pragmatics
Schliemann
prehistoric archaeology
Cultivation
2. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Birth of Anthropology
Referencial Symbol
Animal domestication
Class
3. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Gene migration
Neolithic Technology
EB Tylor
Sapir-Whorf
4. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Fieldwork
Anthropology
Chromosome
Polygamy
5. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Ethnocentrism
platyrrhini
Modernization
Cargo Cult
6. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Referencial Symbol
Hunter/Gatherers
polished stone
7. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Formal Economics
radiometric dating
Quinceanera
Ritual
8. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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9. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Gene migration
Margaret Mead
Yanomamo
Ziggurat
10. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
Dokimasi
Modernization
Social practices
11. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Peking Man
Cultivation
Mutation
Bronze Age
12. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
International Development
Conspicuous Consumption
Phratry
Allele
13. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Paleolithic period
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Margaret Mead
Class
14. Invented smelting of iron
Paleolithic period
Chiefdom
Hittites
State
15. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Real Culture
Etic perspective
Relative time
Unit of Kinship
16. Shorthand - Morse Code
African Economic Organization
Culture
Genetic drift
Condensed Symbol
17. Spread of something from one group to another
Chiefdom
Alternatives
Diffusion
Upper Paleo period
18. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Technology development research
New World monkeys
Lower Paleo Period
Mythology
19. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Geophysical prospecting
babylonians
Structuralism
Central American indians
20. 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
Quinceanera
Phases of rituals
Genotypic Variations
Generalized Reciprocity
21. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
State
Radcliffe-Brown
Diffusion
Band
22. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
platyrrhini
Chiefdom
Band
23. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Ethnography
Petrie
Cargo Cult
Hunter/Gatherers
24. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
Gens
Warlike people
Mauss
25. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Matrilineal Descent
Civilization
polished stone
26. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Family of orientation
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Fieldwork
Real Culture
27. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
New World monkeys
Allele
Migration of Erectus
Middle Paleo Period
28. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Cro-Magnon
Stimulus Diffusion
Alternatives
Middle east farming
29. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Tribe
Benedict
Structuralism
Allele frequency
30. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
Ethnology
chimpanzee
Mendel's third principle of genetics
31. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Poy Tang Lon
Individual Peculiarities
Non-warlike people
Genotype
32. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Migration of Erectus
Nuclear Family
Allele
33. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Allele
Bronze Age
Hammurabi
34. 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
Potlatch
Redistribution
Adaptation
New World monkeys
35. 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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36. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Formal Economics
Austrailia indians
Diffusion
37. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Emic perspective
Rite of passage
polyandry
Adaptation
38. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Adaptation
Hunter/Gatherers
Ethnology
39. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Negative Reciprocity
Gene migration
Homonids
40. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
culture
Functionalism
Lower Paleo Period
Survival
41. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
perforated edges
prosimians
African Economic Organization
Taboo
42. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Greeks
Cro-Magnon
EB Tylor
Cultivation
43. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
homonoids
chimpanzee
Monogamy
Qualitative Research
44. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Moieties
Franz Boas
Conspicuous Consumption
Cro-Magnon
45. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Sondages
Status
Adaptation
Diffusion
46. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Structural-functional
Cargo Cult
Modernization
polyandry
47. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Schliemann
platyrrhini
Allele
State
48. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
Cargo Cult
Chiefdom
Horticulture
State
49. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Sondages
Semantics
endogamy
Barbarism
50. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Individual Peculiarities
Mary Douglas Leakey
Civilization
Greeks