Test 2 Review Flashcards
apashia
people who cannot communicate
symbolic displacement
assign a meaning to a word
Phonology
hearing
morphology
way that words appear
noam chomski
we are hardwired to communicate-universal grammar
focal vocab
words that mean different things in different cultures
sociolinguistics
study of language change on social factors
language diversity
language that is translated, tends to result in some incorrect translations (nothing is perfect)
forbidden experiment
will a child still be able to comprehend things without learning how to communicate (is it in our blood)
multidisciplinary
archaeology is not just digging stuff
prehistory
not written in time
history
written in time
artifact
fossil made by human being
material culture
physical objects left behind
remote sensing
using radar instead of digging
relative dating
gives age compared to other things but not exact date
absolute dating
provides actual calendar date
carbon-14
absolute dating method, used to find the age of things. when you die carbon-14 stops producing and turns into carbon-12. (stuck in time)
dendrochronology
tree rings
great transition
hunter —–> settler
natufian culture
first domesticators of animals and plants
fertile crescent
area of earliest communities
food prod: positives
surplus of food, staying in one place
food prod: negatives
famine, starvation
social contract
humans respect rights of animals, animals benefit human culture
long distance trade
essential, cannot feed everyone with resources from said area
first farmer
spread of agriculture into europe
talheim
germany, farmers stay on rivers, too many hunters taking land up top
coinage
coins introduced, created system of money, set in stone
standing armies
caused taxation
blanchard bones
showed first artifact of tracking time, calendar like
bureaucracy
levels of government
complex religions
hierarchy of religions due to class structure in communities
writing systems
first writing system is accounting
