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SITE: Ashkelon, Israel (2) (EP)

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1) example of microarchaeological technique

2) “plaster” was actually decayed plans and fecal material

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SITE: Kebara Cave, Israel (2) (ES)

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1) example of neanderthal language capability

2) skeleton with intact hyoid bone

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SITE: La Cotte de St. Brelade, English Channel (3) (E2S)

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1) example of organized hunting
2) 20 mammoths and swoolly rhinos
3) stampedes

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SITE: Kostenski, Russia (4) (ESCS)

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1) example of gravettian characteristics
2) semi-subterranian dwellings (mammoth bone/fur)
3) central hearths
4) storage pits

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SITE: Sungir, eastern Europe (3) (ECP)

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1) example of new burial practices in the Gravettian
2) child burial with grave goods
3) possible inherited status

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SITE: Chauvet Cave (3) (E3O)

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1) example of homo sapien art in the aurignacian
2) 38,000 ya
3) oldest cave art

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SITE: Yana River, Siberia (4) (E3EM)

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1) example of Early Arrival model
2) 30,000 ya
3) earliest evidence near Beringia
4) mega fauna bones and flake tools

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SITE: Pedra Furada, Brazil (5) (E4BSP)

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1) example of early arrival model
2) 48,000-35,000 ya
3) burnt earth
4) simple “tools”
5) possible tools for “geo-facts”
(site consisted of very little)

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SITE: Monte Verde, Chile (7) (E1SORSA)

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1) example of pre-clovis model
2) 15,000 ya very well dated
3) settlement with wood and hide tents
4) organic remains
5) rope, wood, tools, stone points (not clovis)
6) seed=foraging
7) animal bones (hunts large and small game)

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SITE: Blackwater Draw, NM (4) (EFMT)

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1) example of clovis first model
2) first discovery of clovis points
3) megafauna remains- 13,000ya
4) typical clovis site

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SITE: Gault, TX (3) (EIN)

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1) example of clovis first model
2) incised limestone slab- unclear
3) not typical

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SITE: Meadowcroft (2) (EM)

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1) example of Solutrean hypothesis

2) “mille point”(evidence that this route of migration people came from Europe not Asia)

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SITE: Ohalo, Israel (4) (ES2H)

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1) example of Kebaran period
2) seasonal camp
3) 20,000 ya
4) huts and hearths

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SITE: Hilazon Tachtit, Israel (5) (ECDEP)

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1) example of rise of religion during the Natufian
2) cave burial
3) disabled elderly (45yro) female
4) exotic animals (tortoise shells, golden eagle, leopard, human foot)
5) possible shaman

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SITE: Gobleki Tepe, Turkey (4) (E1NM)

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1) example of rise of religion during the nutufian
2) 11,600 ya
3) no habitation
4) might be remains of a religious pilgrimage

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SITE: Jerf el Ahmar, Syria

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1) example of PPNA
2) communal archetecture (large central structure w/ small cubicles)
3) possible communal storage

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SITE: Tehuacan Valley (5) (ECCLS)

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1) example of the archaic period in Central America
2) cave, Highland, Mexico
3) corn 5,500
4) long sequence of occupations
5) Strata show change from teosinte (wild precursor) to maize

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SITE: Cerro Juanqueno, North Mexico (4) (E5SC)

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1) example of development in the North America during late Archaic
2) 500 rock-lined terraces
3) sotrage pits & post holes
4) cultivated maize: 3,000 ya

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SITE: Hohlenstein, Germany (4) (EAMB)

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1) example of homo sapien art
2) aurignacian period
3) mobiliary art (“lion man” and “venus figurine”
4) bone flute (music)