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DSST General Anthropology
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1. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Phratry
KhoiKhoi
primates
EB Tylor
2. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Unit of Kinship
Mary Douglas Leakey
Mendelian population
Rite of passage
3. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Peking Man
Genotype
Cargo Cult
Monarchy
4. 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
Greeks
Lower Paleo Period
Dokimasi
Structuralism
5. 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.
Africa
polished stone
homonoids
Shaman
6. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Fieldwork
Kindred
Relative time
perforated edges
7. 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
Chiefdom
Yanomamo Feasting
Substantive Economics
Levi-Strauss
8. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Poy Tang Lon
homonoids
Alternatives
Mendel's second principle of genetics
9. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Geophysical prospecting
Poy Tang Lon
Sondages
prosimians
10. 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
North American Indians
Neanderthals
Mesopotamia
Asian farming
11. 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.
DNA
Family of orientation
Noosphere
Pacific indians
12. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Gene migration
Absolute time
Margaret Mead
Generalized Reciprocity
13. Traces back to ONE person
Survival
Lineage
Unilineal Descent
Ethnology
14. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Cultural Anthropology
Geosphere
Family of procreation
Biosphere
15. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Unilineal Descent
Cultivation
Gene pool
16. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
endogamy
Social practices
exogamy
17. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
North American Indians
Feudal System
Formal Economics
Family of procreation
18. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Unit of Kinship
Neanderthals
Geophysical prospecting
Pragmatics
19. 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.
chimpanzee
Cultural Evolution
Conspicuous Consumption
platyrrhini
20. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
WG Rivers
Middle east farming
Olduvai Gorge
21. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Structural-functional
3 types of excavation
classical archaeology
Schliemann
22. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Civilization
primates
Neolithic Technology
Superposition
23. Spread of something from one group to another
Cargo Cult
Caste
exogamy
Diffusion
24. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Legitimacy
Olduvai Gorge
Kluckhohn
Nuclear Family
25. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Production
Geerts
Matrilineal Descent
Asian farming
26. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Directed Cultural Change
Genetic drift
Phonetics
Bronze Age
27. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
EB Tylor
Sanction
Matrilineal Descent
Myth
28. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
Cultural relativism
Totem
Generalized Reciprocity
29. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Ethnography
Excavation
Superposition
WG Rivers
30. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Substantive Economics
Savagery
Gene migration
Myth
31. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Rite of passage
exogamy
platyrrhini
32. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Magnetic prospecting
Elsie Parsons
Cultivation
James George Frazer
33. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Cultural Resource Assessment
Cultural Ecology
Semantics
34. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Civilization
Industrialization
Weber
Magnetic prospecting
35. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Sondages
Peking Man
Egyptology
Tributary Production
36. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Fieldwork
Quinceanera
Genetic Recombination
Mutagen
37. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Morphology
Shaman
Malinowski
38. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Gene
Religion
Functionalism
Crossing over
39. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Elsie Parsons
culture
Geerts
Intervention Anthropology
40. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Nuclear Family
Class
Catal Huyak
41. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Cargo Cult
Industrialization
State
42. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Reciprocity
Geosphere
Ziggurat
Anthropology
43. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Genetic Recombination
North American Indians
Cargo Cult
44. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Religion
Armchair Anthropologists
Phratry
Balanced Reciprocity
45. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Potlatch
Anthropometry
Horticulture
Benedict
46. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Egyptology
Ethnocentrism
Polygamy
Gens
47. 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
Quantitative Research
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Modernization
classical archaeology
48. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Divorce
Homo Erectus
Gene pool
Social Darwinism
49. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Culture
Qualitative Research
Peking Man
Industrialization
50. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Fieldwork
Cultural Evolution
Egyptology
Paleolithic period