Anthropology 130 Final

Question 1

Truth concerning velociraptors

Answer 1

A lot smarter than we thought

Question 2

Truth concerning king kong

Answer 2

Demensions not depicted correctly

Question 3

44%/66%

Answer 3

44% believe in evolution/ 66% believe evolution isn’t real

Question 4

The gargantua hype

Answer 4

Big gorrilla

Question 5

Teilhard De Chardin: Thinker of the middle road

Answer 5

believed in similtaneous evolutionary theory and catholacism
Looked for a link

Question 6

Mickey mouse and evolution

Answer 6

Evolved with people overtime

Question 7

Contingency and evolution

Answer 7

Accident that can change the course of evolution

Question 8

Ray Bradbury and contingency

Answer 8

Minor differences make big evolutionary differences

Question 9

Gigantopithecus

Answer 9

Largest primate that ever lived

400,000 years ago

Question 10

Problem with “Pithecanthropus Erectus”

Answer 10

Means ape man 1/2&1/2

Completely false

Question 11

Wallace and the orangutan

Answer 11

hy should the gorilla be our ancestor?

Could it be an Orangutan

Question 12

5 Problems with dubois statue

Answer 12

Constricted head
Long fingers
Short thumbs
Long legs
Large feet

Question 13

Ngangdong

Answer 13

Collection of skulls

Could have been a cult of skulls

Question 14

Tsantsa

Answer 14

South American shrunken head

Question 15

Berekhat ram

Answer 15

Female figurine

Large hips

Question 16

Draw the hand axe/ Chopper comparison

Answer 16

draw

Question 17

Hand axe as complex idea

Answer 17

Requires multiple steps of thinking

Question 18

Schoningen

Answer 18

Long wooden speare with points hardened in fire

Question 19

The major controversy of neanderthal

Answer 19

How smart they were

How much they are like homosapiens

Question 20

True cave purpose

Answer 20

Temples and churches

Question 21

Cliff shelter purpose

Answer 21

Living and burial

Question 22

Psychology of the cave- List four factors

Answer 22

Distort your sense of time
Auditory difference (echos)
Equilibrium
Visual distortion

Question 23

Phenomenology of the cave

Answer 23

Overall impression a human has when experiencing a cave

Question 24

Mythopeic

Answer 24

Anything that inspires a myth

Question 25

Intentional burial

Answer 25

Paloelithic burial

Question 26

Eschatology

Answer 26

What groups believe about what comes after death

Question 27

Sacred and Profane

Answer 27

World divided into sacred and profane things

Question 28

Tata

Answer 28

Disc with cross in center | First example of complex symbol

Question 29

Animism

Answer 29

Spirits exist in all things

Question 30

Circumpolar Bear Cult

Answer 30

Polar region groups tend to have bears as part of culture | Respect/ Revere bears

Question 31

Bear Anthropomorphism

Answer 31

Especially sacred | Tendency to humanize bears

Question 32

Ursus Spelaeus

Answer 32

Cave bear | Neanderthals

Question 33

Pleistocene Megafauna

Answer 33

Ice Age | Large animals/ hunted by neanderthals

Question 34

Drachenloch

Answer 34

Cave bear found here

Question 35

Cave bear icon

Answer 35

Bone going through zygomatic arch

Question 36

Cult of the cave bear

Answer 36

First evidence of religion

Question 37

La Ferrasie: Oldest cemetary

Answer 37

70,000BP | Southern France

Question 38

Burial #5

Answer 38

La Ferrasie 9 domes or mounds baby at the top of mound

Question 39

Burial #6

Answer 39

La Ferrasie | Cluster of bones

Question 40

Rock cover of Burial #6

Answer 40

Indented with cupules | dyads- first symmetrical patterning

Question 41

Shanidar

Answer 41

Iraq | 70,000BP

Question 42

Burial IV

Answer 42

Shanidar | Crippled old man- Shows the value of knowledge

Question 43

Empyrean

Answer 43

Spiritual aspects of the sky

Question 44

Tellurian

Answer 44

Spiritual aspects of the surface of the earth

Question 45

Chthonic

Answer 45

Sacred aspects under the surface of the earth

Question 46

Tuc Du Audoubert...The first church

Answer 46

Pattern of increased sacredness cave oldest example

Question 47

Childrens chamber

Answer 47

Tuc Du Audoubert Circular pattern of child foot prints in room

Question 48

Altar of rotunda

Answer 48

2 bison painting

Question 49

Altimira...The bison ceiling

Answer 49

Cave in Spain | Natural bulges painted with bison

Question 50

Chauvet...35,000 BP

Answer 50

Art was fully matured15000 years earlier than previously believed

Question 51

Lascaux hall of the bulls

Answer 51

Largest prehistoric paintings ever created | Rushing into caves

Question 52

Lascaux the shaft

Answer 52

First evidence of narrative | Shaman

Question 53

Les trois freres dancing master of the animals

Answer 53

Chimera power of the animals | Rampant posture

Question 54

Les trois freres the great bull horse

Answer 54

Shows density of bull and animal drawing

Question 55

Palimpest

Answer 55

Clearing a canvas to add more art or writing

Question 56

Proleptical art

Answer 56

Depict something in the present you wish to happen in the future

Question 57

Contagious magic

Answer 57

Part of something that can influence the whole

Question 58

Imitative magic

Answer 58

If you have something like something you can control that thing

Question 59

Leroi Gourhan's theory of the cave

Answer 59

Even distrubution of animals in kingdom

Question 60

The venus figurine

Answer 60

Faces anonymous | Fertility symbols/ large breasts

Question 61

Elements of a paleolithic burial: Draw the burial and label eight aspects

Answer 61

draw and label then check