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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Mendelian population
Qualitative Research
Cargo Cult
Magnetic prospecting
2. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Kindred
Relative time
Elsie Parsons
Sondages
3. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Homo Erectus
Emic perspective
Greeks
Taboo
4. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Nitrogenous Bases
sharp edges
McLennan
Java Man
5. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Greeks
sharp edges
Barbarism
Nistri periscope
6. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Gene pool
Anthropology
primates
Levi-Strauss
7. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Ralph Lynton
husbandry
Phonology
Physical Anthropology
8. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Redistribution
classical archaeology
Status
Fieldwork
9. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Poy Tang Lon
Revitalization
Gene pool
husbandry
10. 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'
Genpuku
Relative time
Genetic Recombination
Homo Habilis
11. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Pragmatics
Polygamy
phenotype
Adaptation
12. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Neolithic Period
Quantitative Research
Phonetics
Excavation
13. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Electromagnetic prospecting
War
phenotype
Caste
14. Determining the success of a project
Sumerians
phenotype
Kluckhohn
Evaluation research
15. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Ralph Lynton
Structural-functional
Phonology
homonoids
16. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Mary Douglas Leakey
Excavation
Phonetics
Kindred
17. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Phases of rituals
Gens
Absolute time
Genotype
18. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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19. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Superposition
Physical Anthropology
Radcliffe-Brown
Monogamy
20. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Asian farming
Industrialization
Archaeology
Social Class Manifestation
21. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Mutation
Cargo Cult
WG Rivers
Gens
22. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Yanomamo
Genotype
Semantics
Specialities
23. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Formal Economics
Diffusion
Egyptian diffusion
Archaeology
24. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Morphology
Production
chimpanzee
Allele
25. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Qualitative Research
Rite of passage
Mythology
Ethnography
26. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Fieldwork
Cultural Resource Assessment
Poy Tang Lon
Geerts
27. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Cultural Ecology
Phonetics
Etic perspective
Birth of Anthropology
28. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
American farming
Neanderthals
DNA
Morphology
29. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Ideal culture
Dokimasi
Franz Boas
Cognatic Descent
30. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Dead Sea scrolls
husbandry
Unit of Kinship
31. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Hunter/Gatherers
Absolute time
Clan
32. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Franz Boas
Genpuku
Class
Pacific indians
33. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Cultivation
Mauss
Fieldwork
Qualitative Research
34. 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)
Assyrians
Cargo Cult
Sondages
Ideal culture
35. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Intervention Anthropology
Magnetic prospecting
Savagery
State
36. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Noosphere
Pacific indians
Cargo Cult
Natural selection
37. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Africa
radiometric dating
Legitimacy
Industrialization
38. Relatives through marriage
Armchair Anthropologists
Middle Paleo Period
DNA
Affinal kin
39. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Adaptation
Balanced Reciprocity
Qualitative Research
40. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Syntax
North American Indians
Mythology
EB Tylor
41. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Allele frequency
Nitrogenous Bases
pastoralism
Mendel's third principle of genetics
42. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
War
Cross-cousins
Anthropology
43. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Emile Durkheim
Genetic drift
Excavation
Survival
44. 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.
homonoids
husbandry
Anthropometry
Olduvai Gorge
45. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Industrialization
Cultural Evolution
Migration of Erectus
Conspicuous Consumption
46. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
New World monkeys
American farming
Myth
Dead Sea scrolls
47. 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
Production
Lower Paleo Period
Gene migration
Animal domestication
48. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Benedict
Agriculture
Migration of Erectus
Reciprocity
49. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Bronze Age
Neolithic Period
Condensed Symbol
50. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Linguistics
carbon-14 dating
Band
State