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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






2. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






3. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






4. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






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






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






7. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






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






9. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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10. 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






11. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






12. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






13. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






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






15. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






16. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






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






19. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






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






21. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






22. <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






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






24. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






25. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






27. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






28. Collecting community data for use by development planners






29. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






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






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






32. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






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






35. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






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






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






38. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






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






40. Traces back to ONE person






41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






42. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






45. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






46. 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.






47. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






48. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






49. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






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