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47 Cards in this Set
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Laetoli
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1.East Africa
2.australopithecines 3.footprints & tooth/jaw fossils 4.Lower Paleolithic |
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Olduvai Gorge
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1.East Africa
2.australopithecines, Homo Habilis, Homo erectus 3.Oldowan, Acheulean, “Oldowan fashion” 4.Lower to mid paleo |
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Koobi Fora
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1. East Africa
2. Homo Erectus 3. tools sim to Oldowan, butchering site for extinct hippos 4. Lower Paleo |
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Swartkrans
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1. South Africa
2. australopithecines, (dart osteodontokeratic) Homo erectus 3. bones, crude Oldowan tools 4. lower Paleo |
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Hadar
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1. East Africa
2. Aust. afarensisi 3. “Lucy” 4. Lower Paleo |
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Olorgesallie
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1. Eastern Africa
2. Homo erectus 3. many handaxes and bones of an extinct baboon 4. mid paleo |
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Kalambo Falls
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1. East Africa
2. wood, plant remains, lithics, wooden tools, sleeping areas, lake bed site 3. Homo apian 4. lower paleolithic |
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Lake Turkana
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1. East Africa
2. 3. lakes, ash, lava 4. lower paleoloithic |
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Isimila
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1. East Africa
2. h.s.s. 3. Acheulean tools 4. mid. Paleolithic |
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Zhoukoudian
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1. Asia
2. Homo erectus 3. hominid remains, stone chopping tools 4. Lower Paleo |
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Dmansi
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1. Asia
2. Homo erectus 3. stone tools, faunal/floral remains 4. lower paleo |
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Gran Dolina
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1. Europe
2. Homo erectus 3. earliest human remains in Europe 4. Upper Paleo |
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Torralba
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1. Europe
2. ? 3. animal remains, many artifacts 4. lower paleolithic |
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Terra Amata
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1. Europe (France)
2. Homo erectus 3. Acheulean tools, footprints, huts w/ iut, fires, controlled use of fire 4. lower paleolithic |
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Shanidar Cave
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1. Iraq
2. Neanderthal 3. 7 burials flower pollen present 4. mid paleo |
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Le Moustier
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1. Europe
2. Neanderthals 3. Burial sites w/ offerings 4. Mid and lower Paleo |
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Combe Grenal
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1. SW France
2. Neanderthal 3. cave site w/ fire 4. Mid Paleo |
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Klasies River Mouth
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1. South Africa
2. Homo Sapian Sapian, etc 3. earliest modern humans 4. mid to upper paleo |
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Neander Valley
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1. Europe
2. Neanderhal 3. burial sites 4. Mid paleo |
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Teshik Tash
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1. Asia
2. Neanderthal 3. burial young boy with goats horns around him. 4. mid paleo |
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Krapina
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1. Europe
2. Neanderthal 3. deliberate burial, bones 20 + people, defleshed bones 4. Mid paleo |
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Mount Cicero
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1. Europe
2. Neanderthal 3. burial site 4. Mid paleolithic |
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La Ferraissie
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1. Eurpoe
2. Neanderthal 3. burial, parents head to head w/ child 4. mid paleo |
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Chauvet
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1. Europe
2. Homo Sapian Sapian 3. cave art 4. Upper Paleo |
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Lascoux Cave
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1. Europe
2. Homo sapian sapian 3. Cave paintings 4. Upper Paleo |
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Altamira
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1. Spain
2. h.s.s. 3. cave paintings, mammels, human hands 4. Upper Paleolithic |
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Dolni Vestonice
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1. Gech Republic
2. h.s.s. 3. mammoth hunting 4. ice age to mid paleolithic |
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• Lower Paleolithic
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2.6 mya to 100,000 ya
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• Middle Paleolithic
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100,000 to 35,000 ya
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• Upper Paleolithic
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35,000 to 10,000 ya
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• Pleistocene
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1.6 mya to 12,000BP
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• Holocene
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12,000BP to present
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• Oldowan technology
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2.6 to 1.5 mya, Homo Habilis
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• Acheulean tech
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1.5 mya to 150,000BP, Homo erectus
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• Mousterian tech
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150,000 to 35,000BP, Homo Sapian neaderthalensis
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• Chatelperonnian
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35,000BP to 28,000BP
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• Aurignacion
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32,000 to 27,000BP scrapers, sharpened blades
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• Gravettian or Upper Perigordian
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28,000 to 21,000BP "Backed" or blunted knives
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• Solutrean
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22,000 to 17,000BP bifacial leaf shaped points
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• Magdalenian
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17,000 to 10,000BP bone and antler tools
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Milankovitch
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Earth's orbit = periodic ice ages
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Ausralopithecines
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only found in Africa, maybe stone tools, "Lucy" and Laetoli foot prints
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Homo Habilis
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only in Africa, lower pleistocine, oldowan tools, 1st found olduvai gorge
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Homo erectus
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1st to leave Africa, found everywhere but Americas and Australia, lower P/, Acheulean, had fire, Bi-nary pattern
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Acheulean
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core tool
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Oldowan
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core tool
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Mousterian
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flake tools
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