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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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.
Civilization
Radcliffe-Brown
Dead Sea scrolls
prehistoric archaeology
2. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Magnetic prospecting
Cargo Cult
husbandry
Phonetics
3. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Malinowski
James George Frazer
Mendel's first principle of genetics
South American indians
4. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Petrie
Tribe
Emic perspective
Ethnography
5. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Tributary Production
Bands & Tribes
Peking Man
Cro-Magnon
6. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Egypt
Gene migration
Benedict
Referencial Symbol
7. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Specialities
Emile Durkheim
Structural-functional
Catal Huyak
8. 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
Chromosome
gene flow
Agriculture
Class
9. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Specialities
Market Exchange
Kinship
10. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
platyrrhini
Production
Hammurabi
Rite of passage
11. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Animism
3 types of excavation
Rite of passage
Leakey family
12. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
Ethnology
Nitrogenous Bases
Conspicuous Consumption
13. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
Poy Tang Lon
Franz Boas
Bands & Tribes
14. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
sharp edges
Unit of Kinship
Egyptian diffusion
Mesopotamia
15. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Pragmatics
Geosphere
Religion
Java Man
16. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Kinship
Religion
Social Darwinism
Mutagen
17. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Upper Paleo period
Clan
Magnetic prospecting
War
18. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Social Class Manifestation
Excavation
Ritual
Austrailia indians
19. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Genotype
Legitimacy
Dating methods
20. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Modernization
polished stone
EB Tylor
21. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
International Development
Ethnocentrism
Caste
Redistribution
22. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Australopithecus
Specialities
Social Class Manifestation
Ziggurat
23. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Archaeology
Adaptation
radiometric dating
Conspicuous Consumption
24. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Emile Durkheim
Totem
South American indians
Kinship
25. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
Status
Stratigraphy
Ritual
26. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
3 types of excavation
Dating methods
Social impact assessment
radiometric dating
27. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Emic perspective
Sondages
Legitimacy
prehistoric archaeology
28. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Ideal culture
Theory of organic evolution
WG Rivers
Central American indians
29. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
perforated edges
Genpuku
Radcliffe-Brown
primates
30. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Genotypic Variations
Anthropoids
Potlatch
Production
31. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Geerts
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Java Man
32. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Pragmatics
Qualitative Research
Chromosome
Mendelian population
33. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Nuclear Family
polyandry
Magnetic prospecting
Asian farming
34. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
carbon-14 dating
Quinceanera
Conspicuous Consumption
KhoiKhoi
35. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Applied Anthropology
Gens
Petrie
36. 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)
Relative time
Aztec indians
Assyrians
Franz Boas
37. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Ziggurat
Archaeology
Australopithecus
Ethnography
38. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Peking Man
Monarchy
Real Culture
Quantitative Research
39. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Gens
KhoiKhoi
polished stone
Taboo
40. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Feudal System
homonoids
Syntax
Cultural Resource Assessment
41. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Functionalism
Nitrogenous Bases
Schliemann
Semantics
42. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Myth
Market Exchange
Austrailia indians
homonoids
43. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Neanderthals
Cultural Evolution
Quinceanera
Writing
44. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Theory of organic evolution
Production
State
45. 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
Writing
Lower Paleo Period
Status
Band
46. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Culture
Moieties
EB Tylor
47. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Lineage
International Development
phenotype
48. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
James George Frazer
Phratry
WG Rivers
Schliemann
49. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Cargo Cult
State
Malinowski
Levy-Bruhl
50. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
North American Indians
radiometric dating
Technology development research
Levy-Bruhl