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32 Cards in this Set
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Where and when did Columbus Discovery the New World? |
October 12, 1492 Bahamas (Guanahani now San Salvador) |
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How long ago was the Americas first colonized by hunter-gathers from Asia? |
10,000-20,000 years ago |
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How did hunters-gathers first get here from Asia? |
-Crossed the Bearing Strait on foot. -Traveled by boat from Asia |
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How were the first inhabitants of the Americas identified? What was that Period called? |
-By stone points called Clovis-First Theory. -Paleoindian Period 9,000-7,000 B.C. -They were hunter-gathers. |
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Monte Verde Chili, artifacts found there dates back how long ago? |
-11,000 B.C. -Artifacts found DNA evidence dating back 1,000 yrs pre-clovis from Asia. (20,000y ago) |
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What were the boats made with and what were they called? Who came on these boats? |
-Upiak boats made with seal skin. -People from the Solutrean period |
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Cactus Hill, Virginia time period? What was found there? |
-13,000 B.C. -Between Solutrean and Clovis period. -Hearths and Stone tools. |
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Solutrean Theory were descendents from where and how long ago? |
Western Europe (France & Spain) 22,000-17,000 years ago. 5,000 years pre-clovis. |
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What were the Solutrean people known for? |
-Use Clovis techniques. -Artists, stone age art of Europe. -Tool techniques match those of European techniques. |
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Where and how old is Meadow Croft? |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15,000 B.C. |
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What caused Pleistocene extinction of animals? |
-Hunting and overkill. -Climate change (never found bones in kill sites. -Paleoindian hunters eliminated species of large animals -Fluted points have been found with bones. |
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What was the Kennewick Man? Where was he found? |
-9,400 yr old (40-55 yrs old)found along Columbia River. |
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The study of human past? Study of past lifeway and combines time & change. |
Archaeology |
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The time before the appearance of written records. The human past? |
Prehistory |
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Higher status (social inequalities) |
Stratified society |
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Equal social equalities |
Egalitarian society |
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A place of repeated human occupation. |
Stratified sites |
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Field work is done by? |
Survey or excavation |
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4 Aspects of Society & Behavior |
Technology Economy Organization Ideology |
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A concept which people structure their ideas about the universe and their relationship with the universe and life around them. |
Ideology |
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Lava glass |
Obsidian |
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Any object & material made or motified by human actions. |
Artifacts |
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Immovable structures, pit, dwellings, Hearths, midden, post holes |
Features |
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Rock walls |
Dwelling |
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House made with perishable materials |
Post holes |
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Garbage pit |
Midden |
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Fire pit |
Hearth |
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Remains of plants, animals, sedaments any unresolved human activity not altered by human activity |
Ecofacts (Coprolite) (Teosinte - corn) |
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Teosinte |
Corn |
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Determining the estimated age of past events |
Relative dating |
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Determining the actual age of something. |
Absolute dating |
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Raising of livestock |
Pastoralism |
