Arky Midterm One Flashcards
Who was Olof Ohman
Founded kensington runestone near kensignton minnesota that had viking writing. If legit would be proof that the western world was explored by the Scandinavian explorers in the New world in the 14th century
Who was Ignaz Semmelweis?
Used the scientific method to attempt to solve why there were so many maternal deaths in Vienna General hospital
Who is Ignatius Donnelly
Wants to prove that Platos atlantis story is true and that Atlantis was where people changed from barbarians to civilization
Who is James Churchward
popularized “Mu” as “Mother continent” and put it with another lost continent Lemuria. Lemuria was a continent land bridge that explained the presence of lemurs and other fossils in Madagascar and India. Wrote three books with Mu in the title and the Mu had the Naacal civilization the Mu was destroyed the same was as Atlantis. Mu was backed by some tablets that no longer exist
Who is Jose De Acosta
Argued that humans and animals came into the new world using the same route using a route between Eastern asia and western region of the new world. this is not to contradict with the bible
Who is Charles Darwin
Believed in the evolution from the apes
Who is Louis Leakey
Believed that tools found in south California (calico) were similar to the ones found in East Africa but they were actually formed by nature
Who is Ivan Van Sertima
Wrote “they came before columbus” his claim of African presence in the pre-Columbian New World
Who is Eugene Dubois
Discovered the Java Man which combined with a primitive skull and upright stature
Who is Raymond Dart
He claimed that a creature with an ape-sized brain could have dental and postural characteristics approaching those of human
Who is Charles Dawson
Discovered the first piltdown fossiles and was always involved for the finds related to piltdown
Who is Kenneth Oakley
Exposed piltdown man as a hoax by fluorine testing
Who is George Hull
Behind the cardiff Giant Hoax
Who is William Stub Newell
Farmer that comes across the petrified cardiff giant
Who is Graham Hancock
He believed archaeologist have ignored advanced ice age civilizations and atlantis
Who is Augustus Le Plongeon
Translated a maya Indian book troano codex with a alphabet that conected maya to ancient egyptians
What is paradigm
a way of looking at things and is a standard, perspective and set of ideas
Scientific process
Observation, induction (specific oberservation argue probable conclusions), deduction (generalities to specific), testing
Scientific processes are
testable and falsifiable
What is Pseudoscience
does not follow rules of logic and evidence
what is epistemology
A branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, scope, and limitations of knowledge (awareness of facts)
What is Uniformitarianism
Earth has always changed in uniform wats and that the present is the key to the past
What is Catastrophism
Describing earths history as being stable with intermittent short live, cataclysmic events drastically shaping the surface
What is phylogeny
the history of evolution of a species or group especially in reference to lines of descent and relationships among broad groups of organisms
