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ANTH Unit 4
Primates, Dating Methods, Human Evolution, Archaeology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anthropomorphism | The attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman animals |
| ecological niches | a species way of life |
| taxonomy | a biological classification of various kinds of organisms |
| morphology | shapes and sizes of organisms anatomical features |
| prosimians | lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers |
| anthropoids | monkeys, apes and humans |
| hominoids | apes and humans |
| hominids | humans |
| homology | inheritance due to common ancestry |
| analogy | convergent, or parallel evolution |
| oligocene | primate fossils that could be ancestors to modern new world anthropoids |
| miocene | the common ancestor of chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans |
| relative dating | methods that identify a particular object as being older or younger in relation to some other object |
| numerical dating | methods which use laboratory treatment or analysis of various items recovered from an excavation site. |
| law of superposition | layers lower down must be older than the layers above them |
| law of cross-cutting relationships | the intruding features must be younger than the layers they intersect |
| anagenesis | slow, gradual transformation of a single species over time from one species to another |
| archaeology | studies the material remains left by our ancestors in order to interpret cultural variation and culture change in the human past |
| site | a precise geographical location of the remains of past human activity |
| artifacts | objects that have been deliberately and intelligently shaped by human or near-human activity |
| features | non-portable remnants from the past |
| ethnoarchaeology | the study of the way present-day societies use artifacts and structures and how these objects become part of the archaeological record |
| surveys | the physical examination of a geographical region in which promising sites are most likely to be found |
| GPR | ground penetrating radar, reflects pulsed radar waves of features below the surface |
| GIS | geographic information systems, database with a map-based interface |
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