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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Unit of Kinship
Mesopotamia
Sondages
Redistribution
2. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Phonetics
Kroeber
Cultural Resource Assessment
Ralph Lynton
3. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Mesopotamia
Egyptology
Ralph Lynton
Substantive Economics
4. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Genotype
Caste
Leakey family
Balanced Reciprocity
5. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Directed Cultural Change
Policy Research
Homo Habilis
Tributary Production
6. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Franz Boas
Etic perspective
Social impact assessment
7. 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
Structural-functional
Potlatch
Homo Habilis
State
8. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Industrialization
Kluckhohn
Mendel's second principle of genetics
9. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Lineage
Franz Boas
Egyptian diffusion
Schliemann
10. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
culture
Genotypic Variations
Taboo
Status
11. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Levy-Bruhl
Formal Economics
12. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Homo Habilis
Migration of Erectus
Pacific indians
Totem
13. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
pastoralism
Geosphere
Cargo Cult
WG Rivers
14. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Formal Economics
Homonids
prehistoric archaeology
15. <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
Negative Reciprocity
Olduvai Gorge
Upper Paleo period
Status
16. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
KhoiKhoi
Mesopotamia
Middle Paleo Period
Nistri periscope
17. Traces back to ONE person
Cultivation
Mutation
sharp edges
Lineage
18. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Egypt
gene flow
Greeks
Poy Tang Lon
19. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
Real Culture
Hammurabi
Kluckhohn
20. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
radiometric dating
Civilization
Electromagnetic prospecting
Condensed Symbol
21. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Peking Man
Lineage
Structuralism
Absolute time
22. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Cultural relativism
Totem
Hittites
Benedict
23. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Homo Erectus
American farming
WG Rivers
Schliemann
24. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Reciprocity
Cross-cousins
Central American indians
Market Exchange
25. 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)
Mendelian population
Polygamy
Geosphere
Phratry
26. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Kluckhohn
Magnetic prospecting
DNA
Middle Paleo Period
27. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Social Darwinism
Diffusion
carbon-14 dating
Gens
28. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Mendelian population
Pacific indians
Applied Anthropology
Specialities
29. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Mary Douglas Leakey
Nitrogenous Bases
Mendel's first principle of genetics
perforated edges
30. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
New World monkeys
phenotype
Stimulus Diffusion
Egypt
31. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Mutagen
Elsie Parsons
Bands & Tribes
32. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
pastoralism
Homo Habilis
Emile Durkheim
old world monkeys
33. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Allele
Mauss
Ideal culture
Malinowski
34. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
DNA
Gens
Nuclear Family
Monogamy
35. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Middle Paleo Period
Shaman
Geerts
mana
36. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
North American Indians
Warlike people
Cargo Cult
Agriculture
37. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
exogamy
Excavation
Sumerians
Religion
38. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
Substantive Economics
Cultural Anthropology
Levirate
39. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Nistri periscope
Peking Man
phenotype
Dokimasi
40. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Kluckhohn
Redistribution
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Religion
41. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Genetic drift
Cultivation
gene flow
endogamy
42. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Genetic Recombination
Qualitative Research
Radcliffe-Brown
Allele
43. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Survival
Africa
Caste
Dokimasi
44. 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
Qualitative Research
Conspicuous Consumption
Culture
Formal Economics
45. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
chimpanzee
Monogamy
Negative Reciprocity
KhoiKhoi
46. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
perforated edges
James George Frazer
Revitalization
Hammurabi
47. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Kluckhohn
Syntax
Culture
Pragmatics
48. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Ethnology
Ethnography
Chromosome
49. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
mana
Allele
Unit of Kinship
50. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Stratigraphy
Middle Paleo Period
Monarchy
Cargo Cult