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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






2. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






3. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






4. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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






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






7. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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8. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






9. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






10. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






11. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






12. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






13. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






14. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






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






16. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






17. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






18. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






19. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






20. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






21. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






22. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






23. 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






24. 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.






25. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






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






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






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






29. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






30. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






31. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






33. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






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






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






36. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






37. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






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






39. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






40. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






41. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






42. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






43. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






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






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






47. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






48. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






49. 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]






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







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