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Final- Archaeologists
Archaeologists
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
12/03/2011

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Thomas Lynch
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investigated Guitarrero Cave in Andean South America
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Christy Turner
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Interpersonal violence and cannibalism, believed cannibalism is from individuals migrating to mexico
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Esther Boserup
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population pressure theory
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Tim White
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Interpersonal violence and cannibalism
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Steven Lekson
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the towns of chaco canyon, mesa verde, and rio grande were states
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Jonathan Haas
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discovered Caral-Supe, found signs of violence/raiding at Monte Verde
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Winnifred Creamer
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discovered Caral-Supe, found signs of violence/raiding at Monte Verde
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Coronado
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Spanish explorer/conquistador, showed up shortly after the collapse of the Hohokam
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Quetzalcoatl
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feathered serpent god of the Toltecs
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Narmer
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The first Pharaoh of Egypt 3,100 B.C.
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King Tut
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1,341 BC, Egyptian pharoah that ruled during the 18th dynasty, New Kingdom
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V. Gordon Childe
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came up with the Urban Revolution theory
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Karl Wittfogel
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hydraulic state: the hierarchical power structure of states come from the management needs associated with large scale irrigation
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Robert Carneiro
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how the environment interacts with pressure and warfare; hierarchical power structure of states comes from the management needs of warfare
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Ruth Shady-Solis
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founded caral-supe pre-ceramic civilization
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Michael Moseley
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came up with Maritime Foundations Hypothesis
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Michael Coe
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The Olmec horizon- a state created by conquest
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Montezuma
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last ruler of the Aztecs, overthrown by Hernan Cortez
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Hernan Cortez
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Spaniard who overtook Moctezuma in 1521, overtook Aztec empire with guns
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John Rick
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Stanford archaeologist who is currently excavating the site of Chavin de Huantar
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Walter Alva
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investigated the site of Sipan
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Pizarro
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conquered the Incas in 1534 by using the 2 pronged approach
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Pachacuti
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first powerful ruler of the Incas
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Atahualpa
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the last ruler of the Inca empire
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Huascar
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half-brother of Atahualpa, fought with him to become emperor
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