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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






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






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






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






5. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






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






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






8. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






9. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






10. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






11. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






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)






13. Spread of something from one group to another






14. Things all people do the same way (language)






15. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






16. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






17. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






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






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)






21. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






23. Relatives through marriage






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.






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






27. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






28. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






29. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






30. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






31. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






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.






34. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






35. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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.






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






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)






39. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






40. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






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






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






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






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






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






46. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






47. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






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






49. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






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