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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






2. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






3. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






5. Family that raised you






6. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






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






8. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






9. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






10. (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






11. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






12. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






13. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






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






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






16. Relatives through marriage






17. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






18. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






19. Traces back to ONE person






20. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






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






22. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






23. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






26. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






27. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






28. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






29. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






31. 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)






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






33. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






34. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful






35. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






36. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






37. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






38. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






39. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






40. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






41. Ways to date artifacts






42. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






43. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






44. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






45. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






46. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






47. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






48. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






49. 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.






50. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group