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the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation and analysis of artifacts of other physical remains |
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The past considered as a whole or the time of events in the past time with which we have historical record |
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The period of time before the creation of writing or the period of time in which we dont have written historical records. |
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| According to the Ancient Greeks, Romans and Babylonians they belived that time "Decayed" over history. They belived that over time things got worse. They thought there was a "Golden Age" where gods walked the earth, a "Silver Age" in which demi-gods walked the earth and then currently they were in the "Iron Age" which shows the decay of time. |
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| The last king of Neo-Babylon one of the primary thinkers about the idea that time decays. |
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| The Back Side of the flake may contain Cortex, Flake Scars and Aretes. |
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| The Belly of the Flake, Contains the Bulb of force, Eraliure Scar, Concentric Rings, Fissures and the Bulb of Percussion. |
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| The End with the Bulb of Force, Directly Adjacent to the Bulb of Force |
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| The end that contains the Fissures and is opposite of the bulb of force. |
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| the center of the rock. where the flakes get broken off. |
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| The portion of the stone that was used for the tools |
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| The thinist part of the flake used for cutting. |
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| the area in which archaeologists survey and dig. |
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Strictly, natural materials that have been used by humans, for example the remains of plants and animals that were eaten by a given community. More generally taken as material recovered from archaeological sites, or other sealed deposits which is relevant to the study of ancient environments and ecology. Examples include: animal bones, seeds, snail shells, waterlogged wood, and pollen.
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| Is a non portable artifact such as a refuse dump or a fireplace. |
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| This is the Idea that time is in a cycle and everything happens over and over and over again and will never change. |
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| This is the idea that anything can move up the ladder of evolution with the eventual accomplishment of becoming a god. |
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| The area in the environment where the Artifact is found. |
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| Plant remains recovered from archaeological contexts that can be seen with the naked eye. These tend to be seeds and wood fragments, but nuts and other fruits may also be represented. |
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| things such as pollen and microorganisms |
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| The study of fossilized Pollen, spores and other microorganisms. |
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| the analysis and interpretation of animal remains found at archaeological sites |
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| The study of animal remains from an archaeological site. |
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| The consept of deviding pre-history into The Stone age, The Bronze Age and the Iron age |
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| One who studies, collects, or deals in antiquities. |
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"Cabinets of curiosities"
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| was a collection of materials in Renisance Europe of types of materials that had yet to be catagorized. |
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| The age where the Achulean and oldowan tools were made. This was the Age where the first genus of Homo began |
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| was a type of tool made in the lower paleolithic era made by Homo Ergaster and were made after the more primitive Oldowan tools. |
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| The Middle age of the Three age system. The age where most wide spread metal that was used was bronze. |
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| was the era when metal became more wide spread and Farming became more common. Pottery Also became more common during this era. |
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| This is the last age of the three age system and ends when the implement of writting was created. This age begins the creation of cutting tools and weapons being made out of steel instead of bronze. |
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| starts about 2.5 Million years ago and ends at about 30,000 BP. This is the era of stone tools such as oldowan and achulean tools were created. |
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| This age went from 300,000 BP to about 30,000 BP this was the era where neanderthals began to arise and settlements in europe began to be created. |
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| This is the last of the Paleolithic eras and it dates between 40,000 BP and 10,000 BP this is normally refered to as the late stone age and is the era when agriculture begins to flurish. This era is mainly refering to Europe. |
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| Lived in the Middle Paleolithic era and are our closest ancestors. |
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| This was the era in between the Stone age and the Lithic Era. This was the area in africa where Farming began to develope. |
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| This is the era that presseds the Mesolithic era. Lasts from about 2.5 Million years to about 10,000 BP. |
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| had the theory of Inheritance of Accuired Charecteristics. this was the idea that evolutionary change is inherited throughout the life of an organism. such as Muscle lengthaning through repeated use. |
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| Meaning Tounge Stones, Belived to have magical charecteristics. This was the launching of Geology and Palentology |
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| Were arrow heads used by aborigionals that were made of flint. The name came about because the people thought they were created by Elves to kill cattle. |
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| He created the Idea of extinction meaning things that once existed dont exist any more. He also helped with the idea that evolution was a slow process. |
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| A theory created by Georges Cuvier which states that animals can go extinct they dont have to decend to the next creature. |
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Jacques Boucher de Perthes
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| French archaeologist and writer who was one of the first to develop the idea that prehistory could be measured on the basis of periods of geologic time. |
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| is a geological doctrine. It states that current geologic processes, occurring at the same rates observed today, in the same manner, account for all of Earth's geological features. Thus, it assumes that geological processes are essentially unchanged today from those of the unobservable past, and that there have been no cataclysmic events in earth's history. As present processes are thought to explain all past events, the Uniformitarian slogan is, "the present is the key to the past." |
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| created the Idea of Decent with modification meaning all current species are decendents of Common Ancestors. Also created the branching pattern of Evolution. |
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| The Brain Child of Charles Darwin. The change of time of one or more inherited traits. Can change behaviorial traits as well as physical ones. |
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| Considered the Father of common Geology. Created the ideas of Uniformitism and Plutonisim |
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| Worked with J. Hutton on creating the ideas of Unifomitism. created the idea of plate Techtonics and that the earth was formed by slow moving changes that are still in operation today. |
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Culture Historical archaeology
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| Is the idea that everything can be grouped by the material it is made by. Then that thought can help catogorize societys and ethnical and cultural groupings. |
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This is the idea that everything can be grouped by where its found, when it was put there and in what shape it shows up in. |
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| was a danish archaeologist that accidentaly created archaeology in the time space and form ideology. He did this by when he was told to organize a museum he placed things into the materials that they were made out of and thus created the Time, Space and form idea of Archaeology. |
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| is the idea that as time passes things will naturally get better not worse. |
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| Proposed that all societys can be sorted into three distinct types. Savage, Barbarian and Civilized. |
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Was the first type of morgans three types it meant that the society relied on wild plants and animals and were primarily nomadic There were no classes or casts everyone was equal
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The second of morgans three types would engage in farming and pastoral hearding as well as begin to have a leader such as a "Cheif"
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| The last of morgans types and also the most sofisticated. These people are primarily sedentary and have multiple different classes and castes. Also Specialization begins The farmers farm, the blacksmiths make weapons, the potters pot and so on and so forth they also begin to trade alot more. |
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