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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Geophysical prospecting
Tributary Production
Cultivation
Neanderthals
2. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Noosphere
Sanction
Catal Huyak
3. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Mary Douglas Leakey
Caste
Cultural Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf
4. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Neanderthals
Magnetic prospecting
Social Darwinism
Symbol
5. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Survival
Cross-cousins
prosimians
Cultural relativism
6. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Mesolithic Period
Physical Anthropology
Anthropology
gene flow
7. 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
Caste
Neanderthals
Mutation
Levi-Strauss
8. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Cargo Cult
Cultural Resource Assessment
prosimians
Mutation
9. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Barbarism
Peking Man
Specialities
10. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
WG Rivers
Nitrogenous Bases
Noosphere
Mesolithic Period
11. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Adaptation
Fieldwork
Ritual
carbon-14 dating
12. 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)
Divorce
Mauss
Referencial Symbol
Negative Reciprocity
13. Spread of something from one group to another
Taboo
Clan
Hunter/Gatherers
Diffusion
14. Things all people do the same way (language)
Archaeology
Malinowski
Universalities
Middle east farming
15. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
phenotype
Unilineal Descent
Radcliffe-Brown
Levi-Strauss
16. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Applied Anthropology
Bronze Age
sharp edges
17. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Anthropometry
Writing
Kroeber
phenotype
18. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Revitalization
Middle Paleo Period
Cultivation
Production
19. 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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20. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Kluckhohn
Cro-Magnon
Cargo Cult
Armchair Anthropologists
21. Civilization to invent 'zero'
polyandry
Crossing over
Ideal culture
babylonians
22. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Aztec indians
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Neolithic Period
23. Relatives through marriage
Phonology
Affinal kin
Social Darwinism
Cultural Resource Assessment
24. 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.
Anthropometry
Armchair Anthropologists
Egyptian diffusion
Ritual
25. 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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26. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Peking Man
Theory of organic evolution
Class
27. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Qualitative Research
Ziggurat
Diffusion
Referencial Symbol
28. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Referencial Symbol
Reciprocity
South American indians
Unit of Kinship
29. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Allele frequency
Feudal System
Cargo Cult
Birth of Anthropology
30. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Physical Anthropology
polished stone
Emile Durkheim
McLennan
31. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
Linguistics
Petrie
Natural selection
32. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Social Class Manifestation
Olduvai Gorge
Gens
33. 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.
Petrie
Geophysical prospecting
Cultural Evolution
Mendel's first principle of genetics
34. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Specialities
Cultural Resource Assessment
exogamy
Biosphere
35. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Phonetics
Aztec indians
Formal Economics
36. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Survival
Physical Anthropology
Religion
Legitimacy
37. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Sumerians
Cargo Cult
Tributary Production
Yanomamo Feasting
38. 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)
Kluckhohn
Assyrians
Ideal culture
Mayan indians
39. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Cargo Cult
Absolute time
Caste
Assyrians
40. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Symbol
Linguistics
Ethnology
Ritual
41. 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
Relative time
Middle east farming
Agriculture
Birth of Anthropology
42. 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
European farming
Phratry
Lower Paleo Period
Monarchy
43. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Etic perspective
Social practices
Feudal System
Physical Anthropology
44. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
International Development
Divorce
old world monkeys
45. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Structural-functional
Levi-Strauss
Quantitative Research
exogamy
46. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Family of orientation
James George Frazer
Malinowski
Kluckhohn
47. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Schliemann
Hammurabi
phenotype
48. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Alternatives
polyandry
Levy-Bruhl
49. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Warlike people
Survival
Monarchy
50. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Culture
Horticulture
Animal domestication
Margaret Mead