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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. 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.






3. Things all people do the same way (language)






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






5. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






6. Civilization to invent 'zero'






7. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






8. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






9. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






10. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






11. 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






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






13. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






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






15. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






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






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






18. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






19. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






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






22. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






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






24. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






26. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






27. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






28. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






29. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






30. Determining the success of a project






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






32. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






33. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






34. Shorthand - Morse Code






35. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






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






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






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






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






40. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






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






43. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






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






45. 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.






46. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






47. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






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






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






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