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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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3 Subfields of Anthropology

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  1. Physical Anthropology
  2. Cultural Anthropology
  3. Applied Anthropology
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2
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3 Subfields of Cultural Anthropology

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  1. Archeaology
  2. Linguistics
  3. Ethnology
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3
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History

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Within last 5000 years

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4
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Prehistory

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Over 5000 years old

“time before written records”

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5
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Language is

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the vehicle that transmits culture

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6
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Participant observation

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when you participate in their culture

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7
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Culture Bound

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when you judge people based off your own culture

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8
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Stratigraphy

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the dating of geological layers

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9
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Fluorine

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objects with more fluorine are older

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10
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Potassium Argon

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used for dating rocks

half life 1.3 billion years

useful 5000 years - 3 billion years

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11
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absolute dating

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something of written record w/ specific date

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12
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beta particles

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given off at time of death, 15 per gram

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13
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dendochronology

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dating of tree rings

101 rings= 101 years

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14
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Taphonomy

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anything from death to discovery

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15
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Coco’s Bday

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July 4th

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16
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Bonoboe’s use sex

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to diffuse conflicts and create alliances, no matter what gender

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17
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Frodo

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is jane goodall’s alpha male, killed a human baby once so he is violent

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18
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chimp alpha males

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can kill the young and be cannabalistic

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19
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sexual dimorphism

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difference of trait between genders

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20
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2 primates that have sex outside of the estrus cycle

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  1. humans
  2. bonoboes
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21
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miocene time period

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24-5.2 MYA

“time of the apes”

Dryopithecus, forest woodland ape, dryopithecus forward apes and humans have y-5 molar pattern

22
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Oligocene Time Period

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34-24 MYA

Aegyptopithecus from this time period, Remains found in Fayum Basin in Egypt, first to have y-5 molar pattern

23
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Eocene Time Period

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55-34 MYA

animals were nocturnal during this period period, skulls start to move eyes forward

24
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Paleocene Time Period

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65-55 MYA

Purgatorius remains from this time period found in Montana

25
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Preconsul

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sign of the first chimpanzees 14-8 MYA, small size and brain, no tools used, part time bipedal

26
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Ostropicthecus

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2-4 MYA , used tools and toys

brains 425-428 cc

27
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Yanomamo culture is rich in myths

28
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Yanomamo are nomadic hunters/gathers

29
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Yanomamo are most gentle people on earth

30
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Yanomamo people do believe in spirits and magic

31
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chimps are not fully bipedal

32
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Humans are

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diurnal

primates

33
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natural objects that have been used or affected by humans

34
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Yanomamo villages descend from one original village

35
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jane goodall is one of leakeys ladies

36
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chimps have been making and using tools for 4300 years

37
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children dying is proof to the Yanomamo that their magic is working

38
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chimps kill and eat

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antelops

monkeys

bush pigs

baboons

basically whatever they can

39
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the temperature inside a igloo is usually kept below

40
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we were bipedal at least

41
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the leakeys found

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paranthrops boisei in 1959, skull was at least 1.3-2.3 MYA

1960 lewis find Homo habilis ( largest primate brain size)

42
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Oldowan Tools

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earliest paleolithic tools, used by homo habilis

43
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palynology

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study the of pollens, can tell you diet at time of year

44
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Paleonology

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study of comparitive vertibrate over time

45
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amino acid racemization

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left and right hand amino acid dating technique

good between 40,000-180,00 years ago

can be done on ostrich egg

46
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chimps in the wild do not have flees

47
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divergent evolution

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one species becomes multiple over time

48
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convergant evolution

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two or more species develop similarities

49
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Tuang in the bantoo language mens

50
Q

Birute Galdikas works with ___?

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orangutans

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