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18 Cards in this Set
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Describe Piltdown
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Charles Dawson
1911 HOAX back of the skull and jaw fragment not conclusively matched supposedly eonathropus dawsonii anatomically modern to human skull size and thickness |
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Describe Pithecanthropus
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1890's
Java Man (Java Island off Indonesia) Skull cap and femur fragment found separately, not conclusively related Skull capis 900 cc but 2 times as thick as modern humans Dubois Pithecanhropus erectus developed body, primitive head |
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Linguistic Hypothesis
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Brace
As the jaw bone got smaller, the roof of the mouth raised allowing for a spherical pharynx which provided for more complicated speech |
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Structural Reduction Hypothesis
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As technology replaced the use of teeth as tools, the jaw bone became a vestigial bone. The teeth became smaller and the jaw became smaller because the uses were fewer and less strenuous.
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Replacement Hypothesis
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When anatomically modern humans formed, they began to spread across the earth and as they entered europe and asia they pushed out and caused the extinction of homo erectus and neandertals. Therefore in the lineage of modern humans, their direct ancestors are homo sapiens, those that originated at the tip of africa.
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Mitochondrial Eve Theory
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There is a common link between neandertals and homo spaiens that diverged 150,000 to 100,000 years ago.
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Sexual Division of Labor
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Women tend to forage for food, put out nets and set traps.
Men tend to do the more fierce hunting and spearing. |
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Contiental Race
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All current races are indirectly connected to each other. Homo sapien races evolved from Homo erectus in Asia, Africa and Europe creating the three dominant racial categories today.
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Hypodescent
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A population of different ethnic groups are arranged by status in a caste system. Those born into this system that are of mixed levels are placed at the lowest level to keep the rest as pure as possible. Therefore race is based on cultural rather than biological diversity
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Band
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Small group of hunter gatherers who live and work in a community. Mostly composed of interelated by marriage or birth families of less than 100 people. Where people generally move between with relation to other memebers of their family. Members usually marry outside their band.
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Neoteny
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Individuals retain features that are characteristic of the juvenille in a race because the features are beneficial at a mature age as well.
exp. hair, framen magnum, etc. |
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Oldowan
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Oldest known tools.
2.5 million years ago. core tools. choppers, hammers and flakes. related with habilius |
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Acheulian
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In relation to Homo Erectus
Around 1.5mil-30,000 years old Hand axe. core tools |
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Mousterian
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associated with neandertals
prepared core flake tools 100,000-40,000 years ago |
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Shanidar 4
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Body of a neandertal found in Iraq with one normal and one deformed arm. Buried without paint, food, etc. No tree pollen, but flower pollen. Some type of witch doctor.
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Homo Erectus
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1000cc brain
Brain behind eyes Large molars Face is large Large eyebrow bones 1.5 million to 300,000 years ago |
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Movement into Europe
Australia Americas Africa Artics |
40,000
50,000 30,000 100,000 5000-6,000 |
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Life of
Habilis Erectus Neadertal Sapeins |
Before 2 million
Erectus 1.5 million - 300,000 100,000-30,000 100,000- Now |
