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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






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






3. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






4. 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.






5. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






6. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






7. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






9. Spread of something from one group to another






10. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






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






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






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






14. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






16. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






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






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






20. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful






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






22. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






24. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






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






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






27. 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






28. <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






29. 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.






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






31. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar






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






33. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






34. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






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






36. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






37. Civilization to invent 'zero'






38. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






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






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






41. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






42. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






43. Traces back to ONE person






44. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






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






47. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






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






49. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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