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DSST General Anthropology
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1. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Sanction
European farming
prehistoric archaeology
Mesopotamia
2. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Ideal culture
Civilization
Ethnocentrism
3. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
KhoiKhoi
Lineage
Functionalism
Conspicuous Consumption
4. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Ziggurat
Mendelian population
Fieldwork
Clan
5. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Potlatch
Phratry
classical archaeology
6. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Structuralism
Allele frequency
Java Man
Electromagnetic prospecting
7. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Hammurabi
Genotypic Variations
Ethnology
Mendelian population
8. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Nuclear Family
Asian farming
Evaluation research
American farming
9. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Polygamy
Ziggurat
Taboo
Genetic drift
10. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Unit of Kinship
Cognatic Descent
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Kinship
11. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Assyrians
International Development
Affinal kin
12. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Referencial Symbol
Family of procreation
radiometric dating
Homo Habilis
13. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Sondages
Family of orientation
Physical Anthropology
14. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Matrilineal Descent
Band
Theory of organic evolution
American farming
15. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Kroeber
Applied Anthropology
Potlatch
Middle Paleo Period
16. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Family of procreation
Ritual
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Writing
17. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Petrie
WG Rivers
McLennan
18. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Cargo Cult
homonoids
North American Indians
South American indians
19. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Functionalism
Mesopotamia
Status
carbon-14 dating
20. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Homo Erectus
Rite of passage
Qualitative Research
radiometric dating
21. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Lineage
Hittites
exogamy
Paleolithic period
22. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Intervention Anthropology
classical archaeology
chimpanzee
Levirate
23. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Survival
Margaret Mead
Noosphere
Cultural Ecology
24. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Shaman
Bronze Age
Etic perspective
Margaret Mead
25. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Ralph Lynton
Olduvai Gorge
Austrailia indians
Crossing over
26. 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
Neanderthals
Nitrogenous Bases
Cultivation
Geosphere
27. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Feudal System
Mauss
Kluckhohn
Cultural Anthropology
28. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Homo Erectus
Egypt
Weber
Chiefdom
29. 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
Gene
Java Man
Hammurabi
30. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Clan
Levy-Bruhl
Elsie Parsons
Hittites
31. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Cargo Cult
EB Tylor
Levi-Strauss
Non-warlike people
32. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Production
Phases of rituals
Levi-Strauss
International Development
33. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Levirate
Egyptology
Aztec indians
Reciprocity
34. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Cargo Cult
Mendel's third principle of genetics
polished stone
Social Darwinism
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.
Ethnology
Ethnography
Middle Paleo Period
homonoids
36. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
pastoralism
Universalities
Hebrews
Animal domestication
37. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Evaluation research
Mutation
Levy-Bruhl
State
38. 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
Class
Gene pool
Genpuku
Margaret Mead
39. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
Generalized Reciprocity
Chiefdom
Diffusion
40. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Phonetics
Malinowski
Pacific indians
41. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Diffusion
Structuralism
Technology development research
Java Man
42. Determining the success of a project
Matrilineal Descent
McLennan
Evaluation research
Alternatives
43. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Shaman
Allele
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Migration of Erectus
44. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Referencial Symbol
Cargo Cult
Geosphere
Allele frequency
45. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Migration of Erectus
babylonians
chimpanzee
46. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Cultural Anthropology
Myth
Elsie Parsons
Noosphere
47. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Divorce
Industrialization
Mutation
Neanderthals
48. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Mythology
Austrailia indians
Quinceanera
Monarchy
49. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Structural-functional
prehistoric archaeology
Gens
50. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Neolithic Period
Syntax
Lower Paleo Period
Clan