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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Structuralism
Kindred
Matrilineal Descent
2. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
platyrrhini
sharp edges
Emic perspective
Family of orientation
3. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Etic perspective
Egypt
prehistoric archaeology
Poy Tang Lon
4. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Horticulture
Levirate
Mutation
Balanced Reciprocity
5. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Qualitative Research
Nitrogenous Bases
Ritual
6. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
War
Middle Paleo Period
Hebrews
Universalities
7. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Lower Paleo Period
Matrilineal Descent
Real Culture
8. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Nitrogenous Bases
Cross-cousins
Mendelian population
9. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Sondages
New World monkeys
Market Exchange
Chiefdom
10. (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
Lineage
Civilization
Austrailia indians
Hunter/Gatherers
11. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Allele frequency
Legitimacy
Theory of organic evolution
Excavation
12. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Hammurabi
Homo Erectus
Monarchy
Franz Boas
13. 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
phenotype
Cro-Magnon
Petrie
14. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Tributary Production
exogamy
Monogamy
Gene pool
15. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Asian farming
Magnetic prospecting
Anthropoids
Mythology
16. Relatives through marriage
Geophysical prospecting
Phratry
Yanomamo
Affinal kin
17. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Kindred
Diffusion
Warlike people
Cognatic Descent
18. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Affinal kin
Cross-cousins
culture
19. Traces back to ONE person
Balanced Reciprocity
Homo Habilis
Lineage
Horticulture
20. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Theory of organic evolution
Java Man
Tribe
Intervention Anthropology
21. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Status
Bands & Tribes
Nistri periscope
22. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Absolute time
Semantics
Ideal culture
23. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Dokimasi
American farming
Civilization
24. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Africa
South American indians
Natural selection
Genotype
25. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
pastoralism
Mythology
Intervention Anthropology
Lower Paleo Period
26. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ethnology
Band
Absolute time
Ziggurat
27. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
International Development
Asian farming
Real Culture
Divorce
28. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Egyptology
Generalized Reciprocity
Emile Durkheim
Petrie
29. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Dating methods
classical archaeology
Matrilineal Descent
Divorce
30. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Matrilineal Descent
Superposition
Monarchy
Syntax
31. 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)
Legitimacy
gene flow
Emic perspective
Phratry
32. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stimulus Diffusion
Stratigraphy
Asian farming
Shaman
33. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Cultural relativism
Substantive Economics
Functionalism
34. 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
McLennan
Rite of passage
Neanderthals
Anthropoids
35. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Industrialization
Paleolithic period
Kluckhohn
Peking Man
36. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Cargo Cult
Clan
Modernization
Mayan indians
37. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Morphology
Homo Erectus
Substantive Economics
platyrrhini
38. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
sharp edges
Genpuku
Leakey family
Quinceanera
39. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Nuclear Family
Emic perspective
War
Sumerians
40. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Cargo Cult
Pacific indians
Bronze Age
carbon-14 dating
41. Ways to date artifacts
Noosphere
husbandry
Ethnocentrism
Dating methods
42. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Directed Cultural Change
Birth of Anthropology
Industrialization
Animism
43. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Physical Anthropology
Margaret Mead
Theory of organic evolution
Relative time
44. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Homonids
Catal Huyak
Warlike people
Cultural Anthropology
45. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Homo Erectus
Geosphere
Nuclear Family
Mutagen
46. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
phenotype
Evaluation research
Malinowski
Savagery
47. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Anthropometry
Myth
Savagery
husbandry
48. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
Chiefdom
Diffusion
homonoids
49. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
Kroeber
Agriculture
prehistoric archaeology
Linguistics
50. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Applied Anthropology
Olduvai Gorge
Levirate
Elsie Parsons