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Cards Term Two theories of where modern humans came from Definition Multiregional (candelabra)--all humans slowly evolved everywhere Out of Africa -- there were two migrations of hominids out of africa, the second being modern humans Term appx date blades show up in africa Definition 50k years ago Term earliest blade industry in europe Definition Aurignacian Term new technology to make stone tools during the middle to upper paleolithic transition Definition use of bones and organic materials to make stone tools Term Site: Singhir Definition 35k years ago Russian burial site Adolescent boy buried with beads stitched to clothing girl and old man buried with modified stone artifacts Term 32k year old statue of man with lions head. Importance? Definition evidence towards shamanism Term Site: Lascaux Definition Painted art as opposed to portable art use of wall surfaces to accentuate pictures painted animals occationally hunted but not frequently hunted Term Magdalenien Definition Upper paleolithic industry, emphasis on bone and antler to make microblades Term Site: Cosquer Definition on the coastline, much lower water line at the time aka 25k yrs ago cave goes into a cliff, mouth is under water the animals depicted do not reflect the frequency of animals butchered outside cave 17k yrs old Term Site: Niaux Definition in the pyrranes mountains people would watch for animals moving up and down mountains to hunt high art chamber possible sound connotations similar common type of piercing picture (getting speared) to lascaux chinese horses almost all bison and horses Term Site: Chauvet Definition cave bear skulls in this cave cave bear skull mounted on large rock in center of cave sometimes you find claw marks on walls, over or under paintings pictures of pierced seals pics interpreted as jellyfish oldest 32k yrs aurignation period painted animals too difficult to hunt or that hunt human, dangerous Term Explosion of this type of art in Upper Paleolithic Definition Portable art, venus figurines Term atlatl Definition spear throwing tool like used by australian aboriginies Term Site:Dolni Vestonice Definition mammoth bones surrounding huts with hearths hut away from the rest of the camps looking like a pottery kiln near the kiln there is a womans burial face sculpture with drooping face, the woman had a stroke and had droopy face Term Theory of how humans got to australia Definition must have made boats because indonesia was connected but not to australia Term Site: Lake Mungo Definition Burial in Australia dated to about 40k years ago, earliest skeleton found so this is around the time humans got to australia Term Beringia Definition Land segment that connected Russia and Alaska. Would have been flat with grasslands, cold but not uninhabitable Term Sinodont vs sundadont Definition sinodont have shovel shaped incisor teeth, this links new world peoples (indians) to asian peoples Term earliest material artifact in the new world Definition caribou tibia with notches cut in it, incorrectly dated originally but now dated to 3 or 4k years which isnt oldest Term Sahul Definition Ancient Greater Australia Term bipolar flaking Definition sitting a rock on another as a platform to hit it and make a flake, makes flakes on top and bottom of core Term clovis points appear Definition around 13k years. fits with the theory that the glaciers blocking the path from alaska to the rest of the new world opened around 18k years Term Site: Pedra Furada Definition Site in chili with rock overhang, buttloads of flaked rock, but not human modified rock falls off cliff when it rains and flakes on ground Term Site: Monteverde Definition Organized logs with vegetation ties around them and hides draped over. Problem for clovis theory if humans were in south america before clovis Term Along the west coast theory Definition Water levels were lower, and there may have been a way to follow the west coast down into the americas without using the glacial pass. Term Site: Mt Sandel Definition dates to just after the end of the ice age remainders of a house, supported by substancial wooden posts evidence of rebuilding a house many times on the same location Toggling harpoon, point comes off and sticks in animal with rope attatched Term Site: Vedbaeck Definition First established cemetery Evidence of violence, family buried was murdered antlers under old peoples heads Term sedentism Definition staying in one place, becoming stationary Term Site:Jebel Sahadale Definition cemetery dates to 13-14k yrs ago 40% of the people in this cemetery show archaeologically detectabe evidence of violence All facing east, lying on their hands Men have most points in left side, evidence of archery Women and children have points in head and neck Term Abu Hureyra Definition one of the earliest sites showing sedentism and intensification, abandoned after several thousand years Term Site: Jericho Definition Appears to be the oldest continuously habited place in the world rrenches were terraced so bottom was very small Founded shortly after 10k yrs ago Early houses at Jericho were round Tar, turquoise, all kinds of stuff from surrounding areas Body was allowed to be cleaned of flesh by nature then skull was recovered with plaster Produced the largest construction of anywhere in the early Neolithic Base of a cylindrical tower, about 9m in diameter at the bottom, attatched to a wall 2m by 4m Outside wall a ditch was dug Purpose isn’t clear, but what it takes to build something like this is Term Cayonu Definition dates 9300 – 8500 houses here don’t look like other sites instead of mudbrick houses, stone foundation with floor ventilation about 8800 built a terrazzo stone floor (cement) this structure is the only one in the place floored like this no habitation debris must be some kind of public building, religious, govt, etc Term Catal Huyuk Definition sits in the middle of a marshy area occupied from 9300 – 8000 built from mud bricks ceramics appear Term Tell es Sawwan Definition Outside of fertile crescent rainfall area, required irrigation. Fortifications Term Site: Choga Mami Definition Evidence of canal building, organization of social structure to conscript labor to build such things Term Site: Karanovo Definition Evidence of shift towards domesticated crops, et 7500yrs ago