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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






3. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






4. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






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






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






7. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






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






9. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






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






11. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






12. 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.






13. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






14. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






16. Traces back to ONE person






17. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






18. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






19. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






20. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






21. (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)






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






23. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






25. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






26. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






27. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






28. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






29. Family that raised you






30. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






31. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






32. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






33. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






34. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






35. 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






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






37. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






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






39. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






40. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.






41. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






42. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






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






44. Ways to date artifacts






45. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






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






47. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






48. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






49. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






50. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.