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| Australia, the land down, under was first inhabited |
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| Greater Australia was a single landmass during the Pleistocene called |
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| The Wallacea trench is important to the settlement of Australia because |
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Costally adapted, had to travel of 65,000 of opened water
separates animal species from Australia and the mailand |
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| Lake Mungo Man yields evidence of |
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| Oldest ritual burial 40,000 years ago |
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| The second Mungo burial discussed in class yielded evidence of? |
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Oldest cremation
26,000 years ago |
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| The paleoindian period is roughly? |
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| The paleoindian in North America occurs during the _____ period |
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| The term Beringia is used to describe? |
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| The movement of people from Asia to north America |
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| The best data in situ Clovis site in North America is...? |
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| The best claim to a pre-12,000 BP date in the Americas (north & south) is? |
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| Folsom points are distinctive in that they have...? |
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symmetrical, leaf-like shape with a concave base and wide, shallow grooves running almost the entire length of the point. The edges are finely worked. The characteristic groove, known as fluting, |
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| *The difference between paleoindians and archaic-Indians in terms of subsistence can be characterized as a change to? |
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Paleoindians:
hunter-forager-gatherer
Archaic- Iindians:
foragers-gatherers-hunters |
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| The Old World compares favorably with Clovis culture in that they were big game hunters, manufactured big well made bifaces and blades, used the over-passed flaking techniques, and were cold adapting. |
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| In North America the dominate paradigm was that the Clovis culture was the oldest paleoindian culture. However, recent discoveries in Virginia have demonstrated a culture complex below the Clovis horizon. This new culture complex has been dated to 15,050 BP. The site is? |
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| The Archaic was first fully addresses by Gordon Willey and Philip Philips in 1958. Central to their study was the approach of looking at the Archaic in terms of? |
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| The Aubrey Clovis site at Lake Ray Roberts is important because? |
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| First campsite, first Clovis site found- predated everything else |
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| Folsom and Clovis points are confined to the? |
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| limited geographical range |
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| Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania is offered as evidence for? |
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| longest record of human ocupation in the western hemisphere |
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| The Taima-Taima site is important because? |
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| Supports Pacific Rim Model |
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| Spanish Jesuit Jose de Acosta intuitively suggested that? |
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| When people left Noah's Ark, people walked to North America with the other animals |
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| The Clovis barrier was broken by the discovery of? |
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| The Aubrey Clovis site has a unique geologic setting? |
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Next to a Dam
Deeply buried under current floodplains. |
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| Prehistoric sites in Tasmania indicate that? |
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Frozen Tundra
Close to Antarctica |
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| Richey-Roberts Site is an example of? |
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| Clovis Cache (storage unit), exquisite material |
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| Monte Verde site is noted for? |
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| being 1,000 years before Clovis |
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| The oldest Clovis archaeological materials are found in? |
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| Perhaps no site in the American Midwest exemplifies better the Archaic period than the _______ site in Illinois. |
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| The Olsen- Chubbuck site. What is an example? |
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| The Jones-Miller site is a rare example of? |
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Late paleoindian
8000-1000 BC
Plain view points |
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| Characteristics of the Archaic include... |
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Early-8,500-6,000 bp.
Middle- 6-3,500 bp.
Late- 3,500-1,250 bp.
The developmental or evolutionary stage between paleoindian and woodland cultures.
7,250 years= successful adaptations to the changing post pleistocene environment.
Archaic in terms of adaptation: Gordon Willey, Phillip Phillips.
Highly mobile hunters and gatherers in the mystical sense of men the hunters and women the
gatherers.
Focus on small game and plant resources.
Increasing intensive food collecting through time.
Passive hunting, snare, gill net, harvesting techniques.
Blossom of stone and bone technology, ground stones, bones, axes, weights, bolas, pipes,
jewelry.
Copper used as ornaments.
Sedentism, intensive plant-mice collection w/out agriculture.
Increased communit organization, burials with elaborate and ornate grave goods reflecting
hierarchy between rich and poor.
Social focus on local community but with long distance contacts. |
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| The culture group that evokes from the Glacier Kame Cultures is... |
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| The Great Serpent Mound was constructed by? |
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| Reciprocity, big man theory, redistribution, elite trade are terms that describe? |
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Hopewell
Development of economic/social structure |
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| In terms of burials, the hallmark of the Mississippian cultures was? |
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Platform mounds
Retinue burials
1 adult male lying on 20,000 shell beads
50 young women
4 adult men heads and hands cut off
200 acres enclosed by palisades |
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| Elite graves that contained grave goods associated with the Southern Death Cult had common motifs of? |
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| Wind, fire, sun, human sacrifice |
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| The largest prehistoric earth work in North America is? |
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| A moiety can be described as? |
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| Social organization based off Cardinal direction. North, South, East, West |
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| Homo floresiensis, the new hominid from Indonesia, was immediately recognized by the archaeologist as an early hominid because? |
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| Neither Ape nor Human, in between |
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| The archaeologist that discovered Homo floresiensis proposed that the hominid is most likely linked to earlier species of? |
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| Miniaturized Homo Erectus |
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| * What is the difference between horticulture and agriculture? What are the three sisters and where do we find them? |
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You grow it you eat it- Horticulture- anarchy state
Agriculture- share amongst others
Corn, bean and squash
Illinois and Ohio |
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| *Peopling of the New World. How did they get here? When did they get here? What are the three current hypotheses? What were the methods of entry and the sites that mights support there hypotheses? Who might they have been? |
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Beringia model needs to be rethought
Solutrean solution needs to get looked at
Pacific Rim model went to South first
L Monte Verde, Tiama-Tiama |
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