Being Human Definitions

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Creationist

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one who believes that the universe, the earth, life, and humanity are the product of the creation of an all-powerful god

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Charles Darwin

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father of modern science. Developed idea of adaption

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Cultural relativism

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each culture is unique and relative to itself

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cutlure

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learned transmitted behaviour

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Dendrochology

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tree-ring dating. The age of the tree can be determined and associated with the site at which it was found

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Ethnology

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comparative study of culture

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Ethnography

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cultural discription

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Fixidity

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Aline with creationalism. Things are fixed in form, no change over time. -Things wiped out and started over again

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Laetoli footprint

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Fossil footprint. Supports evolution

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Historical archaeology

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study of relatively recent documented periods using material culture as well as text

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Holocene epoch

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geological time we are in

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hominid

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Our Family

• Any creature believed to be in the direct human line.
• Bipedal locomotion is the single most salient characteristic of the hominids.

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homo sapion sapiens

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our biological species. The only surviving Hominid

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insitu

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things in place. (artifacts you can not move)

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Law of superposition

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stating that in any undisturbed sequence of rocks deposited in layers, the youngest layer is on the top and the oldest layer is on the bottom.
-Each layer being older then the one above it

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Holocene Epoch

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the recent and current geological epoch. Followed the pleistocene

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Linguistics

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Anthropological study of language

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Lucy

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common name of Australopithecus

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Osterdontokratic

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The tool kit Australopithecus used. They built out of bone, teeth, and horn.

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Pleistocene epoch

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geological epoch beginning about 2.6 million years ago.

-Marked by a succession of colder periods (glacial)

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Prehistoric Archaeology

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When we have no written record. Study from material remains

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Primate

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our biological order

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Prosimins

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first primates

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quarterary period

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Period we are currently in, started 2 million years ago

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Radiometric

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form of absolute dating, implies you can measure decay

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relative dating

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dating developed by comparison

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sexual dimorphism

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different size in male and female

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stratigraphy

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layers of the earth

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uniformatarism

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same events today, happened years ago. We can use today to explain things before

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unilineal evolution

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The no longer accepted view that all cultures change or evolve along the same pathway.

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Miocene epoch

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25 to 5 million years ago. Forests were more extensive. Arboreally adapted ape species thrived

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Forensic Anthropology

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looking at bones to tell us about health or illness

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endocast

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fossilized brain, mud cast of what the brain looks like

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biological anthropology

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looks at human physical change and variation over time

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interglacial

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between glacial events

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radiocarbon dating

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a form of carbon dating. Based on the decay of carbon. -carbon dating can be applied to anything that was once part of a living organism within a range from 50,000 to 500 years ago.

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Ethnohistory

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the study of cultures and customs by examining historical records

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3 point provenince

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is the position of an archaeological find in time and space, recorded three-dimensionally

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Absolute dating

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the determination of the age on an object with reference to a specific time scale

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adaptation

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mode or strategy for survival, can be physical or cultural

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Anthropology

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the study of humanity

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Archaeology

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the study of humanity through the analysis of material remains

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Artifacts

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an object manufactured by a human being or a human ancestor. Portable

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Australopithecus

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Genus. Ape shape brain with modern human behavioural traits of bipedal locomotion

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Cenozoic era

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is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras. - From 66 million years ago to the present. - Followed the mesozoic era

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Cuneiform

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The earliest form of writing in the world. -Used nearly 6,000 years ago by pressing standardized symbols into wet vlay.

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Geomorphology

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The study of physical features (landforms) on the surface of the earth

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Varves

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Thin geological layers of slit/ or clay that record annual water deposits in the area. Can be used to study past weather conditions, flooding, lakes, ect.