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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Absolute time
Cro-Magnon
Cargo Cult
Migration of Erectus
2. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
European farming
Clan
Africa
carbon-14 dating
3. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Gens
Cultural Ecology
African Economic Organization
Ralph Lynton
4. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Homo Erectus
WG Rivers
Etic perspective
5. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Agriculture
Unilineal Descent
Egypt
6. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Sondages
Australopithecus
Cognatic Descent
Cargo Cult
7. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Theory of organic evolution
Quantitative Research
EB Tylor
McLennan
8. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Chiefdom
James George Frazer
Warlike people
Ritual
9. 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
Gene pool
Yanomamo Feasting
Peking Man
Gene migration
10. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Dead Sea scrolls
Central American indians
Religion
Social Class Manifestation
11. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Family of procreation
Biosphere
Sanction
Neolithic Period
12. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Neolithic Period
DNA
gene flow
Ideal culture
13. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Phonetics
Rite of passage
Modernization
State
14. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Leakey family
Monarchy
Yanomamo Feasting
Benedict
15. 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)
Divorce
South American indians
Neanderthals
Anthropology
16. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Asian farming
Agriculture
Electromagnetic prospecting
Ralph Lynton
17. 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.
Moieties
State
Nitrogenous Bases
Dokimasi
18. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
African Economic Organization
Yanomamo
Elsie Parsons
Absolute time
19. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Genotypic Variations
Band
Universalities
Cultural Evolution
20. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Electromagnetic prospecting
Sanction
Dokimasi
Bands & Tribes
21. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Nistri periscope
Hunter/Gatherers
Applied Anthropology
Barbarism
22. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Universalities
Geophysical prospecting
Hittites
Paleolithic period
23. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Chiefdom
DNA
Unilineal Descent
24. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Stratigraphy
Ziggurat
Syntax
25. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Levirate
EB Tylor
Policy Research
Gene pool
26. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Quantitative Research
Culture
Gene
Caste
27. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Family of orientation
Unilineal Descent
Catal Huyak
phenotype
28. 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.
State
Magnetic prospecting
Negative Reciprocity
African Economic Organization
29. Thinker: social stratification
Weber
radiometric dating
Cargo Cult
Olduvai Gorge
30. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Natural selection
Nistri periscope
carbon-14 dating
31. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Conspicuous Consumption
Totem
Individual Peculiarities
Quantitative Research
32. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Policy Research
Culture
Chiefdom
33. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
homonoids
gene flow
Generalized Reciprocity
34. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Alternatives
Reciprocity
Theory of organic evolution
Morphology
35. 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.
Cultural relativism
State
homonoids
Upper Paleo period
36. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Genotype
New World monkeys
polished stone
Leakey family
37. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Relative time
prosimians
Status
prehistoric archaeology
38. 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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39. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Mutagen
Referencial Symbol
Caste
Pacific indians
40. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Horticulture
Mesopotamia
Genetic drift
Cargo Cult
41. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Caste
mana
Archaeology
Unit of Kinship
42. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Linguistics
Writing
Egyptian diffusion
Survival
43. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
radiometric dating
Yanomamo
Levy-Bruhl
Cognatic Descent
44. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Greeks
prehistoric archaeology
Linguistics
45. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Australopithecus
Phonetics
Adaptation
Mendelian population
46. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
3 types of excavation
Middle east farming
Market Exchange
Cultural Evolution
47. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
chimpanzee
classical archaeology
Mendel's second principle of genetics
KhoiKhoi
48. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Hebrews
gene flow
Mayan indians
49. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Social practices
Australopithecus
Substantive Economics
Superposition
50. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Nuclear Family
Electromagnetic prospecting
Chiefdom
Catal Huyak