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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2012

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evolution is...
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a theory
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taphonomy
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anything from death to discovery
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not all chimps...
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are bipedal
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bonobo groups
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do not have a leader and share power
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social life of chimps and bonobos
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greatly vary: chimps have leader, bonobos share power
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frodo
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one of the most aggressive chimps of Jane's group
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divergent evolution
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leads to new species
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osteodontokeratic
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term coined by dart to explain possible tool use by australopithicines
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first known fire maker
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homo erectus
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original name for homo erectus
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pithecanthropus erectus
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4 subfields of anthropology
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physical archaeology ethnology linguistics
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natural objects that have been used or altered by humans
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altered fossils
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any object fashioned by humans is called
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an artifact
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Mr. H is a stuffed...
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monkey
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chimpanzees have been using stone tools for at least?
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4300 years
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mike
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used intelligence instead of strength to become alpha male
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Paleocene was... (time period)
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65-55 MYA
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Largest cranial capacity
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homo habilis
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homo erectus most closely related to
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homo floresiensis
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majority of animal bones at choukoutien came from what animal?
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deer
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carbon 14 half life
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5730 years
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obstertrical dilemma is a conflicting selection for?
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compact pelvis
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The humuslus theory
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is not true
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Hawaiian family tree
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all who are same age/sex go by same term
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how marriage affects matrolinage
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status is unchanged
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the Bronze age lasted...
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3000 BC, 5000 BP, 5000 YA
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Form of polygamy?
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all of the above
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couvade
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father "gives" birth
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athabascan rite of passage
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at first period, girls and mom leave village (girl in state of "unclean", no one can touch her, not even herself) return to tribe as woman
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Mano rite of passage
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3 month bush school, 9-12 years old, boys and girls circumcised, circumcision soup
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Apache rite of passage
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at first period, girls in state of ritual purity, men kicked out, girl is "queen" man close to family has to kill albino deer tan hide, and mom makes dress, for 10 days after, celebration
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Samoa rite of passage
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you determine when you are grown, can change mind, self declaration
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Boreo cuture "crazy"
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"running amok" (run with sword and chop people, then fine)
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Samoa culture "crazy"
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sit down and internalize
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Aztecs journey to afterlife
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"Mictlan" land of dead, can be destroyed on journey, dead body watched for 4 full days, if body remains there, dog sacrificed to help with final journey across river, if body is gone, person didn't survive journey and never existed
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Endogamy
Definition
marry within group
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exogamy
Definition
marry outside of group
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bride price
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form of compensation paid by groom to bride's family
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bride service
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groom works for bride's family after marriage
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dowry
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payment of woman's inheritance at marriage, shouldn't be controlled by husband
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affinal kin
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in laws
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consanguineal kin
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blood/birth relatives
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Incest taboo and human cultures
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all human cultures recognize incest taboo
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monogamy
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1 spouse
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polygamy
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multiple spouses
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polyandry
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woman has more than 1 husband
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polymyny
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man has more than 1 wife
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% of human cultures that are strictly monogamy
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16 percent
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fraternal polyandry
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woman marries brothers
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sororitial polygyny
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man marries sisters
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serial monogamy
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marry divorce marry divorce marry divorce...
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sororate
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woman dies in childbirth, father marries sister
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ghost marriage
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woman marries/has kids in name of dead man/former spouse
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teosinite is considered to be
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Obligatory cultigen
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proof to yanomamo that magic works
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children dying
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in australia, which bird is known as the good father?
Definition
lotus
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crop galore in middle east
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fertile crescent
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la chapelle is the type site for what morphology?
Definition
neandertal
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tools used by the neandertals
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mousterian
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tools used by homo habilis
Definition
acheulean
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new world settlement
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tehuacan valley
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first living creature sent into space
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dog
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responsible for oases theory
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v. gordon childe
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ali kosh people lived in persian gulf around...
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7500-5500 bc
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linear culture existed...
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6000-3800 bc
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tehuacan valley people existed...
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7000-1000 bc
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when did people become domesticators?
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11000-5000 years ago
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australian aborigines, as well as anthropologists, believed they've lived over...
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40000 years
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the "man called bee" was...
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napolean chagnon
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