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Anthropology

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The study of humans

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Archeology

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The study of the human past from material remains

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Cultural Anthropology

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The study of the diversity of living societies. Often based on researchers who spend time and observe.

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Biological Anthropology

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The study of human evolution and physiology

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Linguistic Anthropology

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The study of world languages

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Hominin

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Species in human evolution that is more closely related to people then monkeys.

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Material Culture

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Physical products of culture

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Indigenous Archeology

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A form of archeology that indigenous groups participate in directly

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Artifact

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Any portable object made, used, or modified by humans

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NAGPRA

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1990 law to assess the cultural affiliation of Native American artifacts.

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DNA

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The molecule that carries genetic instructions from parents to there offspring’s.

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GIS

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software-based system for the storage of data held in different layers

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GPS

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worldwide navigation system

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Lidar

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airborne remote sensing technique that sends pulses of lasers to the ground, and measuring how long it takes to come back up

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Three-age system

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Classification system for the sequence of technological periods. bronze age

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Dating

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helps determine age of artifact

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Stratigraphy

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the successive deposition of superimposed layers of natural or cultural material

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Radiocarbon Dating

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based on the radioactive decay of the isotope carbon-14

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Dendrochronology

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absolute data method based on counting the rings of trees

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Palynology

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the study of microscopic plant and animal remains, including pollen, spores, and plankton

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Lower paleolithic

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Middle paleolithic

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Upper paleolithic

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Neanderthals

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Denisovans
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ocher
Used as pigments for paintings and potery
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midden
a concentration of artifacts and food remains, in places where marine resources are a primary element
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Neanderthal DNA
The modern human genome include an average of 2 percent neanderthal DNA
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Blombos cave-south africa
Has earliest convincing evidence of art and shell jewlrey
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Mousterian stone tools
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Peopling of Australia
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Sunda
the continuous landmass formed by island Indonesia and Borneo during periods of low sea level
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Sahul
The continuous landmass formed by Australia and new Guinea in periods of low sea level
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Aurignacian
an archeological culture located in Europe and Southeast Asia, which lasted between 47,000 and 41,000years ago
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Gravettian
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Solutrean
tools made with flint. leaf shaped- europe
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Chauvet Cave
southeast france walls covered in art like the bear art- may be the earliest evidence of art in europe
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Hohle fels cave
women figures
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Atlatl
a spearthrower
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Burin
a stone flake or blade with chisel like edges
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Female Figurines
present through European upper paleolithic- symbol of women hood
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microlithic
small, standardize stone blade
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agriculture
the system in which selected species of plants and animals are cultivated and reared by humans.
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domestication
a process that involves genetic changes to plants and animals as they become dependent on humans for reproductive success
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cultivation
a cultural phenomenon that involves intentionally preparing fields, harvesting, and sorting seeds
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herding
intentional changes in the relationship between humans and animals
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rachis
the tiny stalk that connects the cereal grain to the ear in plants such as, wheat, maize, and other plants
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why agriculture?
helped human health and hunter and gathers were constantly threatened by starvation
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domestication around the world
adoption by hunter-gatherers
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consequences of agriculture
settlement, social satisfaction, material culture, increase in human populations
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Natufians
13,000-9600 BCE, live in permanent settlements
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Neolithic Revolution
over a period of time human society was changed at a pace
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Abu Hureyra
the transition from foraging to farming- storage rooms
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Gobekli Tepe
had religious structures, communal buildings
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Catalhoyuk
one of the largest neolithic settlements in southwest asia- packed tight with housing, it brought other communities all togehter
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Jericho
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Monolith
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cities and states
after the development of agriculture allowed denser populations, in certain regions those populations became even more dense creating cities and states
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Teotihuacan
a sacred cave in Mexico below the period of the sun
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Uruk the first city
Major eanna kullaba temple complexes in Iraq
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Mesopotamia
around 3500 BCE is known to have some of the first developed cities
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Halaf period
The remains are found from western Iran to northern Iraq and Syria. circular buildings, high quality pottery, female figurines.
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Dry farming
farming without the use of irrigation, in areas where normal rainfall is sufficient for cultivation
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Ubaid period
contemporary with the Halaf period, early use of irrigation agriculture
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Eridu
Southern Iraq- sequence of temples dedicated to the water god
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Seals
a stone object carved with a design that is impressed into a lump of clay
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Ziggurats
in southwest asia, a high platform surmounted by a small temple
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Cuneiform
a form of script used in southwest Asia durring the bronze age and early iron age. earliest known writing
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Cylinder seals
used to make an impression in clay
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Sumerian
2900-2350 BCE- first written sources of kings.
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Ur
a Mesopotamian city. cemetary of Ur with artifacts of gold and silver
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Babylon
2300 BCE rise of empires. ancient city
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Akkadian
an ancient language spoken in Mesopotamia
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Mehrgrah
the earliest known center of agriculture in South Asia
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Neolithic in south asia/ india
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Indus river cities
very little evidence of social hierarchy no places of elite burials
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Mohenjo-Daro
the largest city in the indus river- well planned urban settlement
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collapse of Indus cities
explained as the result of the movement of groups from outside, destroying cities and introducing their own alien cultural packages.

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