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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






2. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






3. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






4. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






5. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






6. Relatives through marriage






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






8. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






9. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






10. 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






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






12. 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.






13. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






16. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






17. Man marries widow of his dead brother






18. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






19. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






20. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






21. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






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






23. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






24. Spread of something from one group to another






25. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






26. <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






27. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






28. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






29. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






30. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






31. 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






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






33. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






34. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






35. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






36. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources






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






38. 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






39. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






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






41. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






42. Shorthand - Morse Code






43. Traces back to ONE person






44. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






45. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






46. Family that raised you






47. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






48. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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






50. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects