Syllabus: Paper I > Meaning, Scope and Development of Anthropology > Relationship with Other Disciplines
Osteodontokeratik Culture and Its Makers — 2025 Paper I
Question · 2025 · Paper I · 10 Marks
Osteodontokeratik culture and its makers.
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UPSC Anthropology Optional 2025 — Paper I
28 questionsSyllabus: Paper I > Nutritional Anthropology > Assessment of Nutritional Status > Ecology, culture and social inequality
7(c) Critically discuss the centrality of the African continent in the narrative of human evolution.
15 Marks
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Evolution > Emergence of Homo sapiens > African fossil record; Out of Africa
1(e) Culture and embodiment.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Nature of Culture > Contemporary Culture Concepts > Embodiment; body and culture
Syllabus: Paper I > Nature of Culture > Critique of the Culture Concept > Holism and bounded-culture critique
5(b) Evolutionary significance of menopause.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Growth and Development > Fertility and Menopause > Human life history
5(c) Fission track dating method and its applications.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Prehistoric Archaeology > Chronology and Dating > Absolute dating: fission track
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Growth and Development > Developmental Origins of Health and Disease > Barker hypothesis
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Genetics > Genetic Polymorphism and Markers > Population variation; disease association; forensics
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Genetics > Disease Association > GWAS; applied human genetics
Syllabus: Paper I > Applications of Anthropology > Forensic Anthropology > Personal identification; facial reconstruction
Syllabus: Paper I > Religion > Anthropological Approaches to Religion > Frazer; magic, religion and science
1(a) Mendelian and non-Mendelian traits.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Genetics > Mendelian Genetics in Man > Mendelian and non-Mendelian inheritance
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Evolution > Fossil Primates > Miocene hominoids: Dryopithecus, Sivapithecus
5(d) Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Human Evolution > Molecular Evidence > Mitochondrial DNA; Out of Africa
Syllabus: Paper I > Prehistoric Archaeology > Middle Palaeolithic > Mousterian tradition; Neanderthal makers
5(a) Multispecies, Multi-sited and Critical Ethnography.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Research Methods > Fieldwork Tradition > Contemporary ethnographic approaches
1(c) Osteodontokeratik culture and its makers.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Prehistoric Archaeology > Early Tool Traditions > Osteodontokeratic culture; australopithecine makers
Syllabus: Paper I > Research Methods > Tools of Data Collection > Genealogical method; pedigree analysis
Syllabus: Paper I > Ecological Anthropology > Human Adaptability > Political economy in bio-cultural anthropology
Syllabus: Paper I > Anthropological Theories > Post-Modernism > Critical and engaged anthropology
1(d) Smell as a signal among non-human primates.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Primates > Primate Behaviour > Primate communication and olfactory signalling
Syllabus: Paper I > Anthropological Theories > Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology > Geertz; Turner
Syllabus: Paper I > Development of Anthropology > Branches > New physical anthropology
Syllabus: Paper I > Culture, Language and Communication > Linguistic Anthropology > Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
1(b) Theoretical significance of Purum kinship-system.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Kinship > Alliance Theory > Purum kinship system; prescriptive alliance debate
Syllabus: Paper I > Prehistoric Archaeology > Neolithic > Origin of food production; subsistence economy change
Syllabus: Paper I > Marriage > Types and Forms of Marriage > Social reproduction; kinship and family linkage