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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Kindred
Egypt
Absolute time
2. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Revitalization
radiometric dating
Alternatives
Geophysical prospecting
3. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cross-cousins
Australopithecus
Assyrians
Franz Boas
4. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Java Man
DNA
Mayan indians
Homo Habilis
5. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Superposition
Real Culture
Stratigraphy
Nuclear Family
6. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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7. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Modernization
Yanomamo
Excavation
Levirate
8. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Sondages
Ideal culture
Policy Research
Kluckhohn
9. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
Revitalization
Dating methods
Superposition
10. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Chiefdom
Affinal kin
African Economic Organization
Rite of passage
11. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Genotype
Religion
Sanction
12. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Religion
sharp edges
Mendel's first principle of genetics
pastoralism
13. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
State
Petrie
Egyptology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
14. 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
Substantive Economics
carbon-14 dating
Religion
Genetic Recombination
15. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Levi-Strauss
Egyptian diffusion
Horticulture
Directed Cultural Change
16. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Middle east farming
Kinship
Poy Tang Lon
War
17. 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.
Kluckhohn
Taboo
Nuclear Family
Natural selection
18. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Mesopotamia
Cultural Resource Assessment
Genotypic Variations
North American Indians
19. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Family of procreation
Mutagen
Cargo Cult
gene flow
20. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Middle Paleo Period
Genotypic Variations
Monarchy
Phonology
21. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Alternatives
Franz Boas
Archaeology
Monarchy
22. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Neolithic Technology
Electromagnetic prospecting
Mendelian population
Fieldwork
23. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Magnetic prospecting
culture
Geophysical prospecting
Rite of passage
24. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Lineage
Quantitative Research
polyandry
25. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Dating methods
Nistri periscope
Magnetic prospecting
Schliemann
26. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
European farming
McLennan
DNA
Hittites
27. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Bands & Tribes
Generalized Reciprocity
28. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
homonoids
Morphology
Reciprocity
Neolithic Technology
29. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Mutation
South American indians
Taboo
Poy Tang Lon
30. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Benedict
gene flow
Social practices
31. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Asian farming
Directed Cultural Change
Barbarism
Cultivation
32. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Syntax
Agriculture
Negative Reciprocity
Africa
33. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
North American Indians
Hebrews
Technology development research
Magnetic prospecting
34. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Animism
Pragmatics
Caste
Qualitative Research
35. Ways to date artifacts
Central American indians
Catal Huyak
Dating methods
Market Exchange
36. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Malinowski
Hebrews
Excavation
Totem
37. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Physical Anthropology
Cargo Cult
Divorce
38. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Condensed Symbol
Shaman
Potlatch
EB Tylor
39. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Functionalism
Central American indians
Neolithic Period
40. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
State
Elsie Parsons
Referencial Symbol
Diffusion
41. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
culture
Ideal culture
Peking Man
Archaeology
42. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
New World monkeys
Mutagen
Applied Anthropology
Phonetics
43. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Mayan indians
Unit of Kinship
Magnetic prospecting
Evaluation research
44. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Neanderthals
Phases of rituals
Migration of Erectus
War
45. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Allele frequency
Industrialization
Middle Paleo Period
Margaret Mead
46. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Modernization
WG Rivers
Crossing over
Gene
47. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Polygamy
Class
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Qualitative Research
48. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Mesopotamia
Yanomamo
Sapir-Whorf
Elsie Parsons
49. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Allele
Mauss
Petrie
50. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Genotypic Variations
Archaeology
gene flow
Geerts