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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






10. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






11. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






12. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






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






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






15. Thinkers: linguistics






16. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






17. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






18. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






19. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






20. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor






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






22. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






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






24. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






25. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






26. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






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






28. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






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






30. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






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






32. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






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






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






35. 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)






36. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






37. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






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






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






40. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






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






42. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






43. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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






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






47. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






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






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






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