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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 -
Margaret Mead
Java Man
Social Class Manifestation
Quinceanera
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.
Agriculture
Real Culture
homonoids
Stimulus Diffusion
3. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Egyptology
Dokimasi
Aztec indians
4. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
African Economic Organization
perforated edges
Band
Hammurabi
5. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Homo Erectus
Cargo Cult
Class
gene flow
6. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Mendel's second principle of genetics
babylonians
platyrrhini
phenotype
7. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Quinceanera
exogamy
Qualitative Research
Structural-functional
8. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Cultivation
Phonology
War
9. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Social Class Manifestation
Franz Boas
Reciprocity
Bands & Tribes
10. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Religion
Social practices
Morphology
Upper Paleo period
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
Dead Sea scrolls
Peking Man
Radcliffe-Brown
Armchair Anthropologists
12. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Neolithic Technology
old world monkeys
Sanction
Mesopotamia
13. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Egypt
Greeks
Redistribution
Levirate
14. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Quantitative Research
Homonids
Peking Man
15. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Greeks
Non-warlike people
Symbol
Egyptology
16. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
State
Family of procreation
Gene
17. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Qualitative Research
Shaman
New World monkeys
Absolute time
18. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Peking Man
Greeks
Referencial Symbol
Mythology
19. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Excavation
Technology development research
Real Culture
20. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Revitalization
State
Homonids
WG Rivers
21. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Mesopotamia
Referencial Symbol
Cultural relativism
Australopithecus
22. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Assyrians
Individual Peculiarities
Genetic drift
23. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
State
Mesopotamia
Radcliffe-Brown
24. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Structuralism
Leakey family
Moieties
Phratry
25. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
pastoralism
chimpanzee
polished stone
Directed Cultural Change
26. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Sanction
Physical Anthropology
prosimians
Malinowski
27. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
International Development
Margaret Mead
Quinceanera
Asian farming
28. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Redistribution
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Leakey family
Sapir-Whorf
29. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Ritual
Emic perspective
Nuclear Family
Geophysical prospecting
30. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Family of procreation
prehistoric archaeology
North American Indians
31. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Mutagen
Genetic drift
EB Tylor
32. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Upper Paleo period
Natural selection
Real Culture
33. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Savagery
Nistri periscope
Structural-functional
Cultural Resource Assessment
34. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Physical Anthropology
DNA
Kluckhohn
35. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Gene pool
Phonetics
Mary Douglas Leakey
Ziggurat
36. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
McLennan
Sondages
Dokimasi
Diffusion
37. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Market Exchange
Margaret Mead
New World monkeys
38. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Cultural Ecology
Crossing over
Leakey family
polyandry
39. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Nitrogenous Bases
Individual Peculiarities
Culture
Matrilineal Descent
40. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
KhoiKhoi
Catal Huyak
Peking Man
North American Indians
41. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Stimulus Diffusion
Weber
Religion
42. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Sondages
Genotype
Market Exchange
Barbarism
43. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Myth
Status
Stratigraphy
Band
44. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Allele
Homonids
Genetic drift
Cultural Anthropology
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.
Yanomamo Feasting
Mary Douglas Leakey
Peking Man
Physical Anthropology
46. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Rite of passage
Status
Mesopotamia
culture
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
phenotype
Stratigraphy
Mesolithic Period
Mauss
48. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Superposition
Affinal kin
Social Darwinism
Mendel's first principle of genetics
49. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Asian farming
sharp edges
Mauss
Specialities
50. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Quinceanera
Religion
Unit of Kinship