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31 Cards in this Set
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Artifact
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something made or altered by humans
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fossil
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remains of something once living
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excavation
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the careful removal of dirt for study
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Cultural dating
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using what you know about a culture to identify what you dont know
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Relitive dating
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identifies the age of somthing campared to another know object
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Stratigraphy
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use of layers of soil to compare ages of object
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Scientific Dating
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determines precise age of an object
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Dendrochronology
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uses tree rings to identify the date of an object by matching them with an established time line (bar code)
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RadioCarbon Dating
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compares the amount of carbon 14 in an object with the amount it is sopussed to hav in life, this shows how long the object has been dead.
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Anthropology
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the study of human history
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Archeology
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the study of history throught artifacts and fossils
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inference
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an educated guess based on evidence
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material culture
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the items a culture uses The 'stuff that makes up our culture- jewlery, tools, currency, cars etc.
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Culture
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the beliefs, customs and achievements of a group of people it incorporates almost everything that a group does, wears, beliefs, values etc.
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Australopithicus
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southern ape, our earliest ancestors
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Hom Habilis
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Handy Human, first tools
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home erectus
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upright human, contriled fire
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neaderthal
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(homo sapien) made burials, big brain
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Cro Magnon
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Homo Sapien had art, clothing and tools
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Ice man
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Homo Sapien found preserved in ice
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Hobbit
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modern time, sophisticataed tools, very small
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Raymond Dart
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Archaeologist discovered Australopithecus
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Eugene Dubois
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Archaeologist discovered H.e.first in Java
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Donald Johanson/"Lucy"
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Archaeologist most famous Australopithecus remains in Olduvai Gorge
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The Leakeys (Louis, Mary, & sons)
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famous archeaologists spent most of their careers in Great Rift Valley, Australopithecus Homo Habillis, Homo Erectus
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"Homo"
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Human distinction given to critters with large enough brain size
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Olduvai Gorge/Great rift Valley
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site in Africa millions of years of history represented by layers of soil in valley walls
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Neolithic
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cultures who practiced farming
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Paleolithic
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cultures who used stone tools
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Nomadic/Hunter Gatherer
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people with no permenant homes, cultures who dont produce own food
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Evoulotion
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SLOW process of charnge, due to differencesin indoviduals whch improve chances of survival by meeting the needs of the enviorment
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