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ANTH 140- Unit 2

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out of africa hypothesis   homo sapiens evolved in Africa and replaced all other populations  
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out of africa genetic evidence   mtDNA: africa has the greatest time depth (most variation), modern humans are homogeneous, neanderthal is separated by 400,000 years  
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out of africa skeletal evidence   100,000-200,000 YA homo sapiens in africa and ethiopia  
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out of africa cultural evidence   upper paleolithic was characterized by significant innovation (larger skulls?)  
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multiregional hypothesis   modern humans evolved in all regions of the world simultaneously  
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multiregional skeletal evidence   traits show continuity over time  
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multiregional cultural evidence   stone tool assemblages demonstrate continuity  
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chatelperronian tools   (multiregional)-> arose from mousterian but look like upper paleolithic tools (blades 2x long as they are wide); bone and antler *found with both neanderthals and modern humans  
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replacement with hybridization   assimilation model of out of africa and multiregional-> selection (not replacement) made people modern  
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consensus of 3 theories   modern humans were all over the old worly by 40,000-50,000 YA  
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6 trends of upper paleolithic   higher pop densities, more social gatherings, more stylistic variability in stone artifacts, increased use of bone and antler, personal ornamentation, getting goods from great distances (trade)  
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upper paleolithic blade technology   made blades from a single core: more mass produced  
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upper paleolithic new tool types (8)   fish hooks, eyed needles, harpoons, ropes, nets, lamps, torches composite tools  
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spearthrower   (upper paleolithic) improves power and range over throwing  
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bow and arrow   (upper paleolithic) allowed hunters to carry more projectiles  
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domesticated dog   (upper paleolithic) *tamed, not necessarily domesticated for hunting and pets even in burials  
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art and decoration- upper paleolithic   personal ornamentation, figurines, cave art  
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big change in upper paleolithic   organizational change of the brain  
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aurignacian   (after chatelperonnian) worked bone/antler points, earliest cave art, figurines (anthropomorphic figures) *first time bone was used  
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gravettian   (after aurignacian) known for venus figurines  
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solutrean   (after gravettian) heat treating, thin/big blades (not used- for showing), emerging specialists *probably peopled the new world  
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magdelenian   (after solutrean) reindeer/horse/bison (tamed horses) semi-settled lifestyle (tents/rock shelters) *the most portable art  
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Dolni Vestonice (time period)   Gravettian  
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Dolni Vesonice housing   outdoor structures (some with roofs), outer fence, large bonfire  
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Dolni Vestonice religion   disfigured woman-> goddess? 2300 broken clay figurines  
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Dolni Vestonice tools   loom sticks  
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Dolni Vestonice burials   burial goods (mammoth scapula, lithic artifacts, fox teeth, pigment)  
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Mezhirich (time period)   Magdelenian  
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Mezhirich housing   mammoth bone structures, tool workshops, shells  
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Mezhirich tools   burned mammoth bone, anthropomorphic figurines, map, fishing tools  
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Mezhirich people hunted   mammoth  
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two types of art   portable and mural  
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portable art was more common at   larger sites (more trade)  
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Venus figurines   fertility/pornographic/made by women/sign of god?  
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symbols on art   notches between mood cycle  
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did people live where they did mural art?   no  
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mural art   carefully planned, created over 1000s of years by different people  
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mural paintings were of   animals and hands  
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Lascaux   carnivores in back of cave, prey in big areas, dots (trances?)  
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Chauvet   oldest cave art, animal remains, no drawings of humans  
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Casquer   underwater access to the cave, drawings of animals they saw (not hunted), footprints and torches found  
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Hunting Magic theory of art   drawn to insure the success of the hunt  
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Fertility theory of art   pregnant and baby animals-> to make more food  
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Art for Art's sake theory of art   social bonding/just being artistic  
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Sahul   Australia and New Guinea  
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Sunda   SE islands joined together  
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Wallace line   sharp division of animal species between Sahul and Sunda  
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Bobongara   New Guinea; groundstone waisted axes (to bring down trees), early transition to agriculture  
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Lake Mungo Region   Australia: oldest known cremation, anatomically modern humans, waves of settlement, oldowan type tools  
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How did people get to Australia?   by boat  
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ice free corridor   a space between 2 ice sheets through AK and Canada-> sites in Northern Colorado where sheets ended  
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to americas by coast   hop down the coast from russia or from australia (to south america)  
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solutrean americans hypothesis   from europe along ice flows (old sites on east coast)  
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Mystery of the First Americas (movie)   9,000 YA male (not current native american)  
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Beringia   region of land that people may have crossed that is now the Bering Strait  
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Ice-free corridor   a space between 2 ice sheets through Alaska and Canada- early sites near Northern Colorado where sheets ended  
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Dyuktai culture   Siberian==> 18,000-12,000 YA- microblades, bifaces, blades (no connection technologically with people of North America)  
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Timing to Americas by land   13,000 YA (ice free corridor) following animal migrations  
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Timing to Americas by sea/coast   30,000-14,000 YA hopping down the coast from Russia or from Australia  
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Solutrean timing to Americas   from Europe along ice flows (east coast 17,000-15,000 YA)  
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Mystery of the First Americans (movie)   9000 YA male, not related to modern Native Americans (they are a later wave of people)  
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Clovis   best known early American culture, fluted points, big game hunters  
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3 things to look for in North America   clear evidence of humans, material in original position, associated materials dated  
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Pedra Pintata/Monte Verde   pre-Clovis in South America  
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North America Pleistocene extinctions   giant sloth, giant bever, horse, camel, mammoth, mastodon, lion, cheetah, short-faced bear  
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Europe/Asia extinctions   mammoth, woolly rhino, cave bear, lion  
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2 theories of Pleistocene extinctions   climate change, overhunting  
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Mesolithic   transition period- prequel to agriculture; ice sheers retreated, sea levels rose, population increases, more sedentary lifestyle  
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Mesolithic (Africa)   middle stone age  
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Mesolithic (Europe   Mesolithic  
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Mesolithic (North America)   Archaic  
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Mesolithic (Near East)   Natufian  
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Mesolithic geographic changes   England became an island, Australia separated, ice melted in N America/Europe, Bering Strait flooded  
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Mesolithic tool changes   smaller, more standardized, reflects different activities/regions  
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Broad Spectrum Adaptation   (Mesolithic) locally available plants and animals that were more abundant and predictable  
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Mesolithic subsistence changes   storage (pits), smaller amounts of food at a time, more plant foods, specialized groups/technologies, mapping on to resources (planning life around them)  
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Mesolithic life in Europe   transition to forest, more coastal use, less art  
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Affluent foragers   (Mesolithic) stayed in one place almost year-round  
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Archaic life in North America   more plant foods, smaller game, cave/rock shelters  
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Chumash/Koster   sites in Archaic (Mesolithic) North America  
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Poverty Point   a series of concentric mounds in Louisiana around a central plaza (complexity)  
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Agriculture (definition)   activities that artificially increase plant food yields and includes herding of animals  
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Domestication   genetic modification from the wild form to one that is more useful to people  
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Co-evolution   people changed plants slowly until the 2 absolutely rely on one another for life  
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Primary domestication (definition)   where domestication first actually occurred  
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Secondary domestication (definition)   where domesticated things were introduced  
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Primary domestication locations   Near East, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, South China, Eastern US, New Guinea  
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Secondary domestication locations   SW North America, Europe  
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Society before agriculture   egalitarian, low population density, no territoriality, minimal/no storage, organized at the family/band level  
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Society after agriculture   social ranking, higher pop density, territoriality, formal storage, increased social organization  
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Neolithic (North America)   New Stone Age  
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Neolithic (definition)   when agriculture comes into use, switch to less complex grinding stones  
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Çatal Höyük   (Turkey)==> hunting/gathering with agriculture (slow switch), buried dead under houses, rectangular flat-roofed houses with doorways in the ceiling, decoration/hearths in the houses  
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Çatal Höyük religion   ¼ of all rooms excavated==> wild ox imagery/female statues  
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Çatal Höyük subsistence   barley, peas, wheat, almonds, acorns, pistachios  
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Çatal Höyük trade   caches of obsidian tools, shells, copper, crafts, textiles (substantial trade)  
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Çatal Höyük burials   contain trade and gender-specific items (under their homes)  
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Çatal Höyük age of death   30-34 (younger than Paleolithic)==> cavities, arthritis, disease, bad nutrition  
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The Global Neolithic Pattern   large settlements, more complex, widely scattered and independent (almost none turned into cities)  
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Megaliths   tombs that indicate territory  
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Passage graves   mound over central tomb, passage into it (a type of megalith)  
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Gallery graves   upright stones capped w/ larger stone over graves (a type of megalith)  
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Cyclic consequence of agriculture   more food requires more work, storage becomes essential, heavier tools  
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Consequences of agriculture   cyclic necessity, more work, more disease, increased warfare over land  
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form/blank   Upper Paleolithic; made when making blades- can be shaped into many different tools  
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loess   wind-blown silt deposited from the melting and blowing of salt from ice sheets  
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solifluction   freezing and thawing of the ground resulting in slippage of the surface  
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red ochre   a red mineral used in pigmentation  
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Lascaux II   a museum to view reconstruction of Lascaux art  
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hands/mural art   fingers are missing in most portrayals  
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Pincevent   living floors, flint knapping (Upper Paleolithic France)  
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Abri Blanchard bone   69 semi-circular marks (moon cycles?)  
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cultivation   clearing fields, preparing soil, protecting plants, providing water  
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oasis hypothesis   domestication began as a symbiotic relationship between humans, plants, and animals during desication of SW Asia  
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natural habitat hypothesis   earliest domesticates appeared where their ancestors lived  
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population pressure hypothesis   agriculture was a last resort  
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edge hypothesis   population pressure + where food was less abundant  
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social hypothesis   food surplus= rare stones/social alliances  
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quern   a stone grinding tool for preparing grains and other plant foods  
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fertile crescent   zone in SW asia that reflects the variety of plants and animals that can thrive there  
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Abu Hureyra   a site in the Fertile Crescent (later abandoned like most sites)  
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flotation   to find plant remains (float to the top of a solution)  
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Mehrgarh   South Asia- changed from hunter gatherer to agricultural  
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Ban-po-ts'un   China (Neolithic) kilns, spindles  
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Khok Phandom Di   rice  
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Tehucacan   maize  
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Guitarrero Cave   domestication in the high Andes  
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winding road to human man article   Europeans and Melanesians have neanderthal DNA  
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A New View of the Birth of Homo Sapiens article   some archaic genes, but Africans do have the most diverse genome  
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Refuting a Myth about Human Origins article   archaic homo sapiens may have never existed  
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Women of the Ice Age article   women brought home most calories and aided in hunting  
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Woman the Toolmaker   (alive now) women scraping hides in Ethiopia  
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Children of Prehistory   fingerpainting throughout time  
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Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds   agriculture led to disease and earlier deaths in North America  
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