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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






2. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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3. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






4. Family that raised you






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






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






7. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






8. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






9. 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.






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






11. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






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






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






14. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






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






16. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. Determining the success of a project






21. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






22. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






23. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






24. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






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






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






27. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






28. 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






29. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






30. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






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






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






33. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






34. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






35. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






36. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






37. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






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






45. 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.






46. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






47. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






48. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






49. 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.






50. New family you form when you marry and have children.







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