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DSST General Anthropology

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1. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






2. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






3. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






4. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






5. 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






6. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






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






8. 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.






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






10. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






11. 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.






12. Things all people do the same way (language)






13. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






14. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






15. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






17. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






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






19. 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.






20. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






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






22. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






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






24. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






25. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






26. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






27. Thinker: social stratification






28. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






29. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






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






31. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






32. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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33. (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






34. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






35. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






36. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






37. 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






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






39. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






41. 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






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






43. Traces back to ONE person






44. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






45. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






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






47. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






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






50. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.







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