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Lecture midterm #1 Flashcards

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Foraging?

foraging social organisation slides

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Collection food that is available in nature by “hunting and gathering”

-main economic strategy for most of human history.

-gets distributed within a group right away

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What does high social density mean?

foraging social organisation slides

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close social bonds with everyone in the group. spend time with them

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What does egalitarian mean?

foraging social organisation slides

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-No social classes.
-Everyone has access to resources.
-No difference in status.
-No formal leaders.
-Decision is made by consensus.

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What are the 3 parts of economy?

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1) Production (subsistence)

2) Distribution (exchange)

3) Consumption (includes more than just food)

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Why is foraging considered and “extensive strategy”?

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It requires mobility (you need to be able to carry everything you forage)

Large land base

something else aswell but i can remember

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Use rights is?

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responsible for the caretaking of land and priority access to the land

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What is horticulture?

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-Farming in tropical regions.
-High rain fall, high temperatures.
-Small scale farming.
-People grow crops with ONLY hand tools.
-Generally root crops (no cereals)

*no fertilizers or pesticides. no animals used to pull plow.

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Swidden cultivation/slash and burn is?

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Involves: Clearing an area of land (Trees, shrubs) is called “Slash”

“Burn” is burning away the rest so the ash can be used to fertilize the plot of land.

Yields small surplus of foods

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Horticulture distribution?

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Balanced reciprocity. Exchange of goods with the expectation of the speedy and equal return.

you owe me a dumpling or a dumpling equivalent

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Horticulture social organization?

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Typically sedentary needing to maintain the crops. Not typically large populations. Your crop is considered private property. This allows for differences in social status.

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What is a leavening mechanism?

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A mechanism put in place to minimize wealth disparities.

insult the meat keep everyone grounded. minimize differences.

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What is re distribution?

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There is a central entity (individual or group) who collect a surplus of goods and reallocate them.

(redistributed) (balanced reciprocity too)

(eg) taxes

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Pastoralism (herding)

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Food producing strategy.

Use of animals for the benefits of humans.

they are adapted to areas where rainfall is limited, cold, steep or rocky.

Dont eat the heard animals.

Also have to trade in order to get by since pastoralism isnt enough

Animals=private property

Rigid sexual division of labour (elders have the power)

nomadic or seminomadic

family groups live/work in tents = unit of production???

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Animal husbandry?

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breeding and use of animals for human use

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Ranching vs pastoralism

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Pastoralism an individual moves with its herd whereas ranching the animals stay in the same place.

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generalized reciprocity

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Found through all civilizations, generally throughout families, foraging cultures however members do not have to be related.

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Transhumance migration

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refers to when individuals and their herds migrate through grazing corridors, through agricultural communities. (optimal for trade).

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Intensive Agriculture

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Requires plowing, irrigation and fertilizer on a permanent plot.

Large surplus.

Intensive work required to maintain.

Resource distribution- market economy (supply & demand).

Creation of currency (divisible and portable) Special purpose money.

Commodity money (multi purpose) (spices, salts, sugars, tobacco)

Negative reciprocity (buyer and seller try to get the most out of each other or “best deal”) Typically not a close connection between the buyer and seller of the goods.

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Negative reciprocity?

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intensive culture

exchange in which buyer or selling is trying to get the best deal. (sell more profit most)

no close social relationship

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Agriculturalists social organization

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-permanent settlements (cities)

-higher population density

-occupational specialization

-rigid sexual division of labour (mens work is more valued)

-private property (you can own that land bitch)

-class systems (peasants/ land owners) “social stratification”

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POLYANDRY?

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Marriage of a women and two or more men.

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Polygyny?

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1 man with multiple women

-most preferred

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What is the primary reason for monogamous marriage?

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Economics, land, inheritance

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Fraternal polyandry

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1 woman and 2 or more brothers

-happens in Tibet and Nepal

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What is the predominant form of marriage in Tibet and Nepal?

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Monogamous

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Benefits of Fraternal polyandry?

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Diversification of work and land, multiple fathers, more children to help with economic reasons.

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What is women to women marriage (Gikuyu, Kenya)

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She is able to take a wife after having given her husband multiple wives to help with daily chores/tasks. Found in polygamous structure.

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Bridewealth/bride price?

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Gift from the groom (groom’s family) to the brides family.

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Economic exchange: Dowry

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Payment of a woman’s inheritance at marriage to her of her husband and his family.

**dont ask for it. its insulting and degrading.

*illegal in India

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Incest taboo?

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Human universal- every society has it

-biological reason=she didnt give one

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What is Industrialism?

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methods of producing food and goods using highly mechanized machinery and digital information.

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Romantic love

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Human universal

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What is Agriculture?

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A farming technique that can support a large population using advanced tools and irrigation, and requiring more preparation and maintenance of the soil.

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What is Ideology?

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Refers to beliefs and values, including religion.

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endogamy

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marry within a particular group. same religion same clan same tribe

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Exogamy

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Marry outside a group

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What are Homo Sapiens?

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The Genus and Species to which modern humans belong.

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Hominoidea

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A super family of the infraorder Catarrhini; Includes apes and humans

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What is bipedalism?

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Moving mostly by using 2 legs

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What are the 4 fields of Anthropology?

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1) Cultural anthro
2) Archaeology
3) Biological anthro
4) Linguistic anthro

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What is ethnographic research?

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Studying culture via fieldwork

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What is participant observation?

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When a ethnographer lives with a group of people and observes their regular activities and behaviors.

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What are Ergonomics?

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Science of designing things so they create little or no physical stress on the human body

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What is a Holistic perspective?

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Viewpoint that all aspects of biology and/ or culture are interrelated

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What is TEK?

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The collective and cumulative knowledge that a group of people has gained over many generations living in a particular ecosystem.

usually indigenous knowledge

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What are key elements of the anthropological perspective?

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Holistic
Evolutionary
Comparative
Qualitative
Focused on linkages
Focused on change
Based on field work

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What is cultural relativism?

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The idea that all cultures are equally valid, and that every culture can be understood only in its own context

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Unilinear theory?

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Evolution model that proposed societies progressed from savagery through barbarianism and then to civilization (now entirely discredited)

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Salvage ethnography

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Ethnography done with a sense of urgency to record cultures based on the assumption that the cultures are rapidly disappearing.

*recording practices of cultures threatened with extinction.

**Franz Boas (American anthropologist) aimed to record vanishing Native American cultures

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Franz Boas

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American anthropologist that aimed to recover vanishing Native American cultures

**known for discrediting and calling things racist.

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Fossil

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Any preserved early human remains, no matter their condition

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Taphonomy

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The study of what happens to organic remains after death.

(eg) should be able to determine if bone breakage, markings on bones, the distance between bones, and what bones are present were due to specific kinds of NATURAL or CULTURAL causes.

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Dental arcade

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The shape of tooth rows (parabolic= wider at the back than front) or u-shaped

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Fossil record

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Assemblage of early human remains or the interpretation of human evolution based on human remains

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What is Osteology?

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The study of bones (or the study of the human skeleton

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Lumper vs Splitter

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Lumper beleives over the past 4 million years there have only been 2 genera of humans : Australopithecus and Homo.

Splitter beleives there have been many: Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Kenyanthropus, and Homo.

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Diastemas

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Gap between teeth

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Prognathism

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Protruding face

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What was a negative consequence of bipedalism for our ancestors?

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Made us more vulnerable.
Easier to be seen by predators.
Slower than being on all fours.
Stress on the skeleton

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What was the first hominin?

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Ardipthicus Ramidus

-4.4 million years old

-Opposable big toes (potentially the only hominin in human lineage with that feature)

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Ethnographic research

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The process of studying culture via a field work setting.

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Ethnography

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Written or visual product of ethnographic field research.

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Etic

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An outsiders view (objective explanation)

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Emic

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An insiders view (perspective of the subject)

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Entomophagy

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The practice of eating insects for food.

coolest thing ive learned so far

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Community

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Group of people who share a physical location (live, work and play together)

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Group

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Loose term for people who share culture, they often live in the same region.

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Society

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People who share a large number of social or cultural connections.

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Identity markers

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Cultural characteristics of a person such as ethnicity, socioeconomic class, religious beliefs and values.

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Subcultures

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A group of people within a culture who are connected by similar identity markers

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Homogeneous

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same views and beliefs. Sharing “similar identity markers”

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Heterogeneous

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Sharing few identity markers. wtf does this mean.

im going to assume its a group or society that has people of different ethnicity or ages, beliefs that kinda shit.

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that our own customs are normal while the customs of others are strange, wrong or even disgusting.

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Biological adaptations

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A physical adaptation that allows an organism to survive better in its environment.

finally some fucking science

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Cultural adaptations

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The belief or behavior that allows an organism with culture to better thrive in its environment.

god these definitions are so fucking stupid. can you get anymore dull.

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Maladaptive

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A cultural practice leading to harm or death (not productive for a cultures survival in the long run)

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Random sample

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Choosing informants randomly

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Judgment sample

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A method of choosing informants based o their knowledge of skills

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Snowball sample

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Method of finding informants through association with previous informants

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Ideal vs real behavior

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Ideal = How people believe they behave or would like to behave (norms of a society).

Real = How people actually behave (as observed by an ethnographer in the field).

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Human Terrain Systems (HTS)

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US army program involving anthropologists deployed with military units in active conflict zones.

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Economics

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How goods and services are produced, distributed and consumed in a society.

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Food foragers

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Same thing as hunter-gatherers

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Hunter-gatherers

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People who utilize the food resources available in the environment

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Food production

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Producing food using farming and or animal husbandry.

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Foodways

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Methods, knowledge and practices regarding food in a particular society.

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Technology

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Tools, skills and knowledge used by people to survive.

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Foraging

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Utilizing food resources available in the environment

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Subsistence

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Food procurement (basic food needs for survival)

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Agriculture

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Farming technique that can support a large population using advanced tools and irrigation and requiring more preparation and maintenance of the soil.

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Bands

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Small egalitarian society of food foragers who live and travel together

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Social density

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Frequency and intensity of interactions among group members in a society.

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Sexual division of labour

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Divisions of tasks in a community based on sex

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Egalitarian

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A society in which every member has the same access to resources and status (non-hierarchical)

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Specialization

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The development of certain skills that others in the group do not share

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Cooperative societies

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Bands and other small-scale human groups that rely on sharing resources for survival

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Reciprocity

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Social rules that govern the specialized sharing of food and other items.

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Nomadic

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Moving within a large area frequently to access food resources.

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Generalized reciprocity

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Form of specialized sharing in which the value of a gift is NOT specified at the time of exchange, nor is the time or repayment.

Hey thanks for dinner ill get you back sometime

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Horticulturalists

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Food producers who cultivate the land in small-scale farms of gardens.

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Carrying capacity

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of people who can be sustained with the existing resources of a given area.

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Balanced reciprocity

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Form of exchange in which the value of goods is specifies as is the time frame of repayment.

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Potlatch

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Pacific Northwest Coast gift-giving ceremony with great cultural significance.

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Pastoralism

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A way of life that revolves around domesticating animals and herding them to pasture.

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Transhumance

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Seasonal migration in which pastoralists move back and forth over long distances to productive pastures.

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Social distance

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Separations between members of different social groups.

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Intensive agriculture

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Farming technique that can support a large population using advanced tools and irrigation, and requiring more preparation and maintenance of the soil.

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Domestication

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Shaping the evolution of a species for human use.

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Nobles vs peasants

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Nobles = High status people of a society where their rank is usually inherited.

Peasants = Low status members of a society that farm for a living.

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Redistribution

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When money gets funneled into a central entity (government authority/ religious institution ) and then gets sorted back out into the community.

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Market economy

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Economic system in which prices for goods and services are set by “supply and demand”.

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Capitalist system

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When a countries industry is controlled by private and corporate ownership in order to make a profit

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Special purpose money

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Items used only to measure the value of things and otherwise lacking a practical purpose

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Multipurpose money

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Commodities that can be used for other practical purposes besides “simply as money”

***this sentence is wack but it comes right from the stupid anthro text book

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Industrialism

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Methods of producing food and goods using high mechanized machinery and digital information

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Chemical inputs

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Synthetic additives (pesticides/ fertilizers) used to raise the yield of crops in industrial agriculture

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Monocultured

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Technique used in industrial farming in which a single crop is planted on many acres.

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Glycemic index

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Measure of the rise of blood glucose (sugar) after eating

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Nutrition transition

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Shift in diet and activity level that accompanies modernization and results in obesity and health problems.

*going from a traditional nutrient-rich diet to a bad western diet

America, land of the dumb and fat

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Gender spectrum

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Variety of gender identities that exist on a continuum

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Marriage

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Socially and legally recognized partnerships in society

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Families or orientation

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Blood-related family members (including parents , siblings, grandparents and other relatives)

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Family of procreation

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Family unit created by marriage or partnerships (including spouses/ partners and their children)

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Monogamy

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Single spouse

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Serial monogamy

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Marriage practice of taking a series of partners one after the other.

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Exogamy

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Marrying outside ones social or ancestral group

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Clans

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Social division that separates members of a society into two or more groups

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Endogamy

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Marrying within ones social or ancestral group

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Caste systems

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In India a person is born into a hereditary group traditionally linked to certain occupations.

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Incest taboo

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Prohibition against sexual relations between immediate family members.

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Household

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Domestic unit of residence in which members contribute to child-rearing, inheritance and production and consumption of goods.

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Neolocal

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When a couple moves to their OWN household after marriage.

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Nuclear family

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A family unit consisting of two generations, most often parents and their children.

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Extended family

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Family unit consisting of blood-related members and their spouses (both affinal and consanguineal)

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Affinal kin

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Related by marriage

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Consanguineal kin

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Related by blood

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Matrilocal

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When the husband moves into his wifes household of orientation.

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Patrilocal

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When the wife moves into her husbands household of orientation.

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Family of choice

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originated in the LGBTQ+ community

People who consider themselves to be family members even though they may not be “affinal” or “consanguineal kin”

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Marriage compensation

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Gifts or services exchanged between the families of a married couple

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Bride-price

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For of marriage compensation in which the family of the groom is required to present valuable gifts to the brides family

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Bride service

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Form of marriage compensation in which the groom is required to work for the brides family

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Dowry

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Form of marriage compensation in which the family of the bride is required to present valuable gifts to the grooms family or to the couple.

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Dowry death

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Deaths of women in the homes of their in-laws due to unmet dowry demands

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Arranged marriage vs forced marriage vs child marriage

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Arranged = When parents find a suitable husband/ wife for their child.

Forced = Where parents demand their child marry someone they have not chosen.

Child = When parents marry off their young daughters to older men who offer to provide for them.

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Kinship

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Family relations, involves a complex set or expectations and responsibilities

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lineages

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A line of descent from a common ancestor

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Fictive kinship

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Including non-blood relations in the family with all the expectation of blood-related family members.

so me and your grandma

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Nurture kinship

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Non-blood relationships based on mutual caring and attachment.

so friends

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Descent group

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Social group of people who trace their descent from a common ancestor

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Bilateral descent

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Tracing ones genealogy through BOTH mother and fathers line

152
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Unilineal vs patrilineal vs matrilineal descent

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Uni = Tracing ones genealogy through either the mother or fathers line.

Pat = Tracing ones genealogy through the fathers line.

Mat = Tracing ones genealogy through the mothers line.

153
Q

Sex, sexuality

A

Sex = biological and physical differences of human beings based on sex chromosomes, hormones, reproductive structures.

Sexuality = Romantic or physical attraction to another person

154
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Intersex

A

Having a combination of physiologic or morphologic elements of both sexes

155
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Gender roles

A

The culturally appropriate or expected roles of individuals in a society

156
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Gender queer vs gender fluid

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Gender queer = lies on the gender spectrum (umbrella term for “Not cisgender”)

Gender fluid = lies on the gender spectrum (nonbinary or changing)

157
Q

Third gender

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Gender role accepted in some societies as combing elements of both male and female genders

158
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Hijra

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A third gender found in India and Pakistan in which male-bodied or intersex individuals adopt female mannerisms and dress.

159
Q

Sexual orientation

A

The nature of ones romantic or sexual attractions to another person

160
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Sharia law

A

Scriptural guidelines for Muslim religious adherents to follow

161
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Androphilia vs gynophilia

A

Androphilia = Romantic or sexual attraction to males.

Gynophilia = Romantic or sexual attraction to females

162
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Polysexual vs pansexual

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Poly = person attracted to people of multiple genders or sexes.

Pan = person not limited in romantic or sesual attraction by sex or gender

163
Q

What are the three brain systems in place for mating and reproduction according to Helen Fisher?

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Sex drive, intense romantic love, a feeling of deep cosmic attachment to a longtime partner.

164
Q

Describe the distinguishing characteristics of homo habilis?

A

Cultural characteristic is that they are the first human ancestors to clearly have used tools. This tool technology is known as Oldowan.

Physically they have larger brain capacities than australophithecine species.

165
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What are some of the most prominent features of Homo Habilis

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Cultural: They are the first hominid species to exhibit a knowledge and implementation of tools, such as Oldowan, evidence of butchering meat.

Biological: They had a larger brain size than australopithecene species. Still not showing much prognathism.

166
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ETHNOLOGY VS ETHNOGRAPHY

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ETHNOLOGY: Cultural Universals and patterns to across many cultures to try and decipher human universals.

ETHNOGRAPHY: First Hand in depth study of a Society or social group

167
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Ethnogropahy vs ethnology?

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Ethnography: first hand in depth study of a society. (Living with the community, there for years, participant observation)

Ethnology: Using ethnology to study one top across cultures rather than the

168
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Why does Franz Boas matter?

A

Worked with James Tate and Charles Hunt. Franz didn’t give them credit.

Discredited the unilateral cultural assimilation model.

Created Cultural relativism.

Fought against racists.

169
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Describe the geological and geographic context of early hominids

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Fossil records all report to our origin in Africa, Climate changes over thousands of years shaped more diverse landscapes and environments for early hominids to expand. Dating sediment tells us when these hominids lived.

170
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Geological and geographical context for early hominids?

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All humans came from Africa. The fossil records prove this. The majority of it coming from the great riff in Africa. Shrinking of forests and expansions of grasslands.

171
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Modes of subsistence based on economic viability

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Foraging, Horticulture, pastoralist, agriculture, industrialism.

172
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What do anthropologists mean when they say kinship is a process?

A
173
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What are the modes of subsistense?

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Foraging: Very sustainable if you have a low population and nomadic.

Horticulture: If done extensively then yes its sustainable.

Pastoraslism: If you can move your heard animals to graze then good but if they’re staying in the same place its not sustainable because its going to make a dessert….

Agriculture: Not sustainable due to pesticides and water runoff.

Industrialism:

174
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Explain the basic methods of paleoanthropology

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tophonomy. identify bones and fossils and human ancestors and the conditions that they are in and what caused it.

Osteology: study of the human skeleton

175
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Ardipithecus ramidus

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Small head

Solid upright posture

large hands/feet

Opposable big toe

Short thumbs

Lived in an arboreal environment which is significant

176
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Australopithecus afarensis

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3 mya to 900 000yrs ago

Ape like face proportions and brain case.

Curved fingers for tree living/ climbing

Bipeds

Lucy 3.3ft tall 60 lbs

Females and males were both anatomically similar

177
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Homo habilis

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First undisputed tool maker (Oldowan)
butchered meat, though not clear if it was a hunter or scavenger.
Possible ancestor of Australopithecus afarensis.
2.5-1.4 mya
Rounded skulls instead of flattened.

178
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Homo erectus

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1.6 mya - 250 000 years ago.
Most likely an established hunter and food getter.
Brain size about 950cc
first to possess modern human-like body proportions.
possible control of fire?

179
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archaic Homo
sapiens

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earliest fossils 800 000 years ago
Brain size and capacity similar to modern human (1250cc)

180
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Homo sapiens (modern human traits)

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300 000 years ago in Africa
Last wave left Africa around 60 000 years ago
Greatly reduced browridge
flat face
protruding chin
relatively long limbs
greater cultural developments (evidence of burials and art)
reduced prognathism
advanced technology (atlatl)

181
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Neandertals

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Discovered in Neander Valley Germany
400 000- 30 000 years ago.
Europe and Middle East range
1450cc
DNA still exists in modern humans
complex culture.

182
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Oldowan

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Oldest homonin tools.

Very simple often mistaken for rocks

183
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Achuelian

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Archaeological industry of stone tool manufactures characterized by distinctive oval and pear shaped hand axes associated with HOMO ERECTUS

Bifacial

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