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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Petrie
Levirate
Poy Tang Lon
Australopithecus
2. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
gene flow
Genotype
Weber
Mythology
3. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
Unit of Kinship
old world monkeys
Mendel's third principle of genetics
4. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Real Culture
Mythology
New World monkeys
Social practices
5. 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
Mutation
prehistoric archaeology
Lower Paleo Period
Biosphere
6. 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.
prehistoric archaeology
European farming
Geosphere
carbon-14 dating
7. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
Status
Anthropoids
Noosphere
8. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Kinship
Potlatch
North American Indians
9. Thinker: social stratification
Technology development research
Weber
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Archaeology
10. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Market Exchange
Alternatives
polyandry
Taboo
11. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Sanction
Barbarism
Natural selection
Generalized Reciprocity
12. 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.
State
3 types of excavation
Religion
Yanomamo Feasting
13. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Archaeology
Neanderthals
Structuralism
primates
14. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Moieties
Middle east farming
carbon-14 dating
Cross-cousins
15. 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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16. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Fieldwork
Dating methods
Hebrews
17. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Specialities
Cultural relativism
Legitimacy
Cultivation
18. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Ziggurat
Australopithecus
Neolithic Technology
Magnetic prospecting
19. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Specialities
Potlatch
Upper Paleo period
Class
20. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Hebrews
Mary Douglas Leakey
Horticulture
Genetic Recombination
21. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
South American indians
Levi-Strauss
Gene migration
Nitrogenous Bases
22. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
EB Tylor
Quinceanera
Yanomamo
Margaret Mead
23. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Theory of organic evolution
Referencial Symbol
Neolithic Period
classical archaeology
24. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
Ralph Lynton
Margaret Mead
Shaman
25. 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
Sumerians
polyandry
primates
26. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Specialities
Dead Sea scrolls
Monarchy
27. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Genetic drift
platyrrhini
McLennan
pastoralism
28. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Feudal System
Africa
Peking Man
Unit of Kinship
29. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Diffusion
Emile Durkheim
Cargo Cult
Migration of Erectus
30. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Weber
Warlike people
Migration of Erectus
Theory of organic evolution
31. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Horticulture
Middle east farming
Feudal System
Mayan indians
32. Family that raised you
New World monkeys
Family of orientation
Generalized Reciprocity
Absolute time
33. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Mesolithic Period
Savagery
Bands & Tribes
WG Rivers
34. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Matrilineal Descent
Homo Habilis
Hammurabi
Ethnography
35. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Homo Habilis
Physical Anthropology
Nuclear Family
36. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Gene pool
Warlike people
Animal domestication
37. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Cultivation
Levirate
European farming
38. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
Market Exchange
Sumerians
Superposition
39. 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.
Warlike people
Yanomamo
State
Noosphere
40. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Negative Reciprocity
Kindred
North American Indians
KhoiKhoi
41. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Emic perspective
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Conspicuous Consumption
Radcliffe-Brown
42. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Sanction
Potlatch
Fieldwork
Absolute time
43. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
babylonians
Syntax
prehistoric archaeology
Emic perspective
44. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Cultural Evolution
Caste
Real Culture
Monogamy
45. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Cultural Ecology
Band
Mary Douglas Leakey
46. Determining the success of a project
Conspicuous Consumption
Pacific indians
Warlike people
Evaluation research
47. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Hebrews
Benedict
Social practices
Ralph Lynton
48. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Peking Man
perforated edges
Applied Anthropology
49. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Dead Sea scrolls
Adaptation
Redistribution
Divorce
50. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Kluckhohn
State
Symbol
Phratry