Exam 3 Flashcards
Fossils/Fossilization
Taphonomy
Potassium-argon Dating
Radiometric Dating Methods (Radiocative isotopes)
Potassium-argun daing
Carbon 14 dating
Relative dating methods
Magnetic reversals record
Biostratigraphy
Paleocene:
Pre-primates,
North Latitudes,
Rodent-like (mostly),
Plesiadapids
Eocene:
1st euprimates,
Warming,
Northern Latitudes (mostly)
Lemur- and Tarsier-like Adapids and Omomyids
Oligocene:
1st anthropoids,
Old World; 1st New World Monkeys; cooler
Miocene:
Apes diversify; increasing aridity; incrasing seasonality?
Late Miocene:
Apes diminish in diversity; monkeys expand in diversity; more open habitats
Earliest Potential Hominins
Orrorin (6Ma)
Sahelanthropus (7-6Ma)
Adipithecus (5.8-4.4Ma)
First Farmers
12,000 Ka
Fist Hearders
10,000 Ka