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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






2. 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






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






4. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






5. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






6. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






7. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






8. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






9. 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.






10. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






11. Ways to date artifacts






12. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






13. Man marries widow of his dead brother






14. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






15. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






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






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






18. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






19. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






20. 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






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






22. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






23. Determining the success of a project






24. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






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






26. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






27. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






28. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






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






30. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






31. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






32. 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






33. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






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






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






36. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






37. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






38. 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.






39. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






40. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






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)






42. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






43. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






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






45. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






46. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






47. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






48. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






49. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






50. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values