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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Homonids
husbandry
Cargo Cult
Neanderthals
2. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Physical Anthropology
Australopithecus
Cultural Resource Assessment
Birth of Anthropology
3. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Phonetics
old world monkeys
Nitrogenous Bases
polyandry
4. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Status
Clan
Hebrews
prosimians
5. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Social impact assessment
Adaptation
Quantitative Research
prehistoric archaeology
6. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Chiefdom
Homo Erectus
Bronze Age
7. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Cultural Ecology
Upper Paleo period
Condensed Symbol
Superposition
8. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Hunter/Gatherers
Levi-Strauss
Gens
9. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Ethnology
Greeks
Physical Anthropology
Savagery
10. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Substantive Economics
Lower Paleo Period
Ziggurat
11. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Aztec indians
Anthropoids
Culture
Horticulture
12. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Barbarism
Morphology
prosimians
Middle Paleo Period
13. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Phratry
Geophysical prospecting
Social Class Manifestation
DNA
14. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
Social Darwinism
phenotype
Condensed Symbol
15. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Redistribution
Animism
Alternatives
mana
16. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Agriculture
New World monkeys
platyrrhini
Paleolithic period
17. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Warlike people
Homonids
Quinceanera
Unilineal Descent
18. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Hunter/Gatherers
Real Culture
Margaret Mead
Individual Peculiarities
19. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Gene migration
Nitrogenous Bases
Band
Genetic drift
20. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Cross-cousins
Sapir-Whorf
Nistri periscope
Petrie
21. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnocentrism
Geerts
North American Indians
Kroeber
22. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Egypt
KhoiKhoi
Cultural relativism
Radcliffe-Brown
23. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Diffusion
Egypt
Paleolithic period
carbon-14 dating
24. 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
Kinship
Genetic Recombination
European farming
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
25. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Animal domestication
Cargo Cult
Africa
Egyptian diffusion
26. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
old world monkeys
Gens
Physical Anthropology
27. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Real Culture
Revitalization
Cargo Cult
Mary Douglas Leakey
28. 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
Sumerians
Genotypic Variations
Neanderthals
War
29. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Family of orientation
Cultural Evolution
Substantive Economics
Mesopotamia
30. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
New World monkeys
Cargo Cult
Allele
classical archaeology
31. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
platyrrhini
Franz Boas
Mayan indians
Gene
32. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Industrialization
Status
homonoids
33. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
War
Family of procreation
old world monkeys
Barbarism
34. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Applied Anthropology
Bronze Age
Franz Boas
Genetic drift
35. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Monarchy
Technology development research
Leakey family
Affinal kin
36. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Religion
Mutation
Dokimasi
Kroeber
37. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Polygamy
Migration of Erectus
Paleolithic period
Potlatch
38. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Agriculture
War
Ethnocentrism
Hammurabi
39. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
South American indians
Legitimacy
Central American indians
Dokimasi
40. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Weber
Phonetics
James George Frazer
Homo Habilis
41. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Cultural Ecology
Genotype
Evaluation research
42. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Ideal culture
Mutation
Reciprocity
American farming
43. Thinker: social stratification
Directed Cultural Change
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Weber
Neolithic Technology
44. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Margaret Mead
Legitimacy
Ethnography
Social Darwinism
45. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Writing
Electromagnetic prospecting
Phonetics
Social practices
46. 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.
Genotypic Variations
Physical Anthropology
Cognatic Descent
Java Man
47. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Rite of passage
Natural selection
Neolithic Period
South American indians
48. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Nuclear Family
Generalized Reciprocity
Hittites
homonoids
49. Things all people do the same way (language)
Dating methods
Universalities
carbon-14 dating
Greeks
50. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Monogamy
classical archaeology
Balanced Reciprocity