Test 2 ANT 153 September 2023

Test 2

ANT 153

September 2023

On Lectures and Chapters 14 and 15 of text

A) Explain what a symbolic sign is as discussed in lecture ? Distinguish an indexical sign from a symbolic sign ? What is an iconographic sign ?

Discuss: what language is ? What is culture , in the anthropological sense ? What is displacement, in the linguistic sense; and how was it key in raising the Darwinian fitness of the evolving Genus Homo species in the Stone Age ? Discuss and connect answer to A) to answer to B)

B) Discuss what is special about the stone tool artifacts that give the Stone Age its name ? What were the ways of making a living and social order in the cultures of the Old Stone Age ? In what ways did Old Stone Age evolve into the cultures of the Neolithic or New Stone Age ? What were the ways of making a living and social order of so-called Civilization , and how did they differ from the Old Stone Age ?

C) Questions from text Chapters 14 and 15 :

Page 323 : Questions 1, 2, 6, 8,

Page 362 : Questions 1 ,2, 3, 6

Due in three weeks , on Monday , October 2. It may be typed or handwritten; it must be legible if handwritten.

Write long answers, please; discuss the question and try to relate the questions to each other where possible. Pretend that you are an anthropology professor; profess your scientific theories and hypotheses.