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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






3. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






4. 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






5. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






6. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






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






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






10. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






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






12. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






13. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






14. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






15. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






16. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






18. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






19. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






20. 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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21. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






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






23. 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.






24. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






25. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






27. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






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






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






31. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






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






33. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






34. Civilization to invent 'zero'






35. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






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






37. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






38. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






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






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






42. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






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






44. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






47. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






48. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






50. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.