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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






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






4. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






5. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






7. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






8. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






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






10. 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.






11. Thinkers: linguistics






12. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






13. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






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






15. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






16. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






17. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






18. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






19. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






23. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






25. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






26. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






27. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






29. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






31. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






33. 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






34. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






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






36. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






37. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






38. <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






39. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






40. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor






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






42. 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)






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






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






45. 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)






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






47. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






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






49. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






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