Details Title: Exam 1 Description: Australopithecus Afarensis - AMH Total Flash Cards: 56 Created: 02/08/2009 20:34:40		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Archaeology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Family Tree   Australopithecus Afarensis (4-3mya)        and then... Definition Family Tree   Robust Australopithecines     Gracile Australopithecines (3-2.5mya) Term Family Tree     Gracile Australopithecines (3-2.5mya)     and then... Definition Family Tree       Homo Habilis (2.5-2mya) Term Family Tree     Robust Australopithecines     and then... Definition Family Tree       NOTHING!! Term Family Tree       Homo Habilis (2.5-2mya)     and then... Definition Family Tree       Homo Erectus (2-0.5mya)   Term Family Tree     Homo Erectus (2-0.5mya)       and then... Definition Family Tree       Archaic Homosapiens   Neandertals Term Family Tree     Arcahic Homosapiens       and then... Definition Family Tree       AMH (Anatomically Modern Humans) Term Family Tree       Neandertals     and then... Definition Family Tree       NOTHING!!! Term Family Tree       Australopithecus Afarensis     time frame... Definition Family Tree       4-3mya Term Family Tree       Gracile Australopithecines Definition Family Tree       3-2.5mya Term Family Tree       Homo Habilis      time frame.. Definition Family Tree     2.5-2mya Term Family Tree       Homo Erectus   time frame... Definition Family Tree         2-0.5mya Term         Archaeology   study of... Definition           Past Culture/Material Culture  using objects to distinguish how people lived Term           What do archaeologist normally find, and use to study past cultures? Definition           GARBARGE Term     Absolute Dating     two types of.. Definition       C14 K-Ar Term       C14   what does it date? Definition      Dates..   Organic materials Recent things Term       C14    time frame of dating... Definition           <50,000 years ago Term         K-Ar what does it date? Definition     dates..     Very old things Term         K-Ar time frame of dating? Definition           >500,000 years ago       Term           Relative Dating done through two types Definition       Stratigraphy (layers of earth)(deeper-older) Seriation (stylistic changes over time) Term       Archaeology dating "stuff"   (two types) Definition       Absolute Dating Relative Dating Term         Artifacts Definition         things that have been manipulated  (tools, creations, decorations) Term           Ecofacts Definition        objects that have simply been brought from one place to another.   chicken bones, cobblestones, etc... Term         Features Definition           land artifacts fire pits, storage pits, mounds, post stuck in ground. Term         Evolution Definition         Nature produces variation and the fittest survive Term           What is fit? Definition         -live to the age of reproduction -pass on genes Term         Niches & Breeding Isolates Definition         Niche --->most fit for surroundings Breeding Isolates makes rate of change quicker  Term     Darwin went where...     and found what... Definition     ...Galapagos   ...Finches (niches) Term         Why Bipedalism?   Definition         See over grass, long distance walking, free up hands for carrying, male provisioning... Term         First hominid where on family tree name Definition         Australopithecus Afarensis Lucy Term         Lucy Definition         most complete (oldest) skeleton human-like pelivs   (bowlshaped, broad, short..) Term         Laetoli Footprints where on family tree year. Definition       3.5mya bipedalism Term         East Africa Rift Valley Definition           new fossils every year due to eroding out Term     What differences are there between Robust Australopithecines & Gracile Australopithecines? Definition      From the neck down nothing.   Robust have bigger skulls, big jaw muscles from eating tough, chewy things Term   What was so special about Homo Habilis?     first to produce what? Definition         Olduwan Tools stone, choppers Term       All Hominids before _____ lived in Africa. Definition           Homo Erectus Term       Nariokotome Boy   time? from? very ___ for his age. Definition         Homo Erectus. Africa. tall.   Term     Homo Erectus produced stone tools called...?    detailed. Definition         Acheulian Handaxes tear dropped shaped core tools break like glass (conchoidally) Term       Why were there fewer stone tools in Asia? Definition       Bamboo!! Term       Neandertals are adapted to what weather type?  lived in ___ & as far south as ___? first to do what with their dead? Definition     cold adapted  Europe. Middle East. intentionally bury Term       Who was the first to hunt? Definition     Archaic Homosapiens Term     AMH (Anatomically Modern Humans) first were where, when? traits. Definition         ca. 150kya in Africa high forehead, reduced brow ridges, a Chin Term         Multiregionalism characteristics Definition         constant interbreeding, no new species, slow change Term         Replacement Definition           breeding isolates, speciation Term         Blade tools associated with ____ Definition       AMH Term         AMH around world by... year?   Definition         3.5 kya Term         Cultural Explosion  what was it? when? Definition       art, decorations, record keeping, astronomical observations, bone, ceramics     3.5 kya Term Definition Term         Dolni Vestonice what'd they make? Definition           First fired clay (venus figurines) Term          Megafauna Definition       Big Animals. grazed off enormous fields left by receding glaciers Term     New World occupied by... time. what suggest earlier. Definition          15kya linguistic and mtDNA         Term         Most Native Americans came... Definition           Bering Landbridge Term         First Native Americans came... Definition           By Boat. (Coastal hopping) Term           Atlatl Definition         spear thrower stick with hook, whipped tool Term         Clovis Points Definition           large fluted spear points Term         What is the Clovis Barrier? Definition           No sites older than 12kya found before 1970's Term         Monte Verde Definition           broke clovis barrier site in Chile