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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Relatives through marriage






3. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






4. (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)






5. Determining the success of a project






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






7. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






8. Thinker: social stratification






9. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






10. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






11. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






12. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






13. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






14. 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






15. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






16. 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






17. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






18. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






19. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






21. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






22. 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.






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






24. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






25. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






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






27. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






28. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






29. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






30. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






31. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






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






33. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






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






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






36. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






37. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






38. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






39. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






40. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






41. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






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






43. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






44. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






46. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






47. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.






48. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






49. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






50. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem