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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






2. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






3. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






5. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






6. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






7. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






8. 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).






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






10. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






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






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






13. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






14. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






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






16. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






17. Relatives through marriage






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






19. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






20. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






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






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






24. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






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






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






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






28. Spread of something from one group to another






29. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






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






31. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






32. (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






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






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






35. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






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






37. 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)






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






39. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






40. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






41. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






42. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






43. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






44. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






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






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






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






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






50. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.