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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






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






3. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture






4. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






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






6. 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






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






8. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






9. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






10. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






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






12. Shorthand - Morse Code






13. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






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






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






16. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






17. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






18. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






20. Spread of something from one group to another






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






22. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






24. Ways to date artifacts






25. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






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






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






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






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






30. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






31. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






32. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






33. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






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






35. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






36. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






37. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






38. 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






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






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)






41. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






42. 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.






43. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






44. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






45. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






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






47. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






49. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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