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DSST General Anthropology

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1. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






2. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






3. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






4. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






5. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






6. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






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






8. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






10. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






11. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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12. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






13. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






14. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






15. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






16. Collecting community data for use by development planners






17. (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)






18. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






19. Ways to date artifacts






20. (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






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






22. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






23. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






24. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






25. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






26. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






27. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






28. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






29. 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






30. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






31. 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.






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






33. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






34. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






35. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






36. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






37. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






38. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






39. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






40. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






41. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






42. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






43. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






44. 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)






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






46. 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






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






48. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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






50. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)