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DSST General Anthropology

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1. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






6. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






7. 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






8. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






9. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






13. Traces back to ONE person






14. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






15. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






16. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






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






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






19. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






20. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






21. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






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






23. Spread of something from one group to another






24. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






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






27. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






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






30. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






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






32. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






33. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






34. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






35. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






36. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






37. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






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






39. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






40. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






41. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






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






43. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






45. 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






46. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






47. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






48. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






49. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






50. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.