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| 3D vision that humans have (primate human evolutionary trend) |
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| we walk erect on 2 feet (primate human evolutionary trend) |
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| claws. (primate human evolutionary trend) |
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| different kinds of teeth for humans. primates have teeth that are curved and go in. Different teeth for nipping, cutting, grinding (primate human evolutionary trend) |
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| thumbs that curve for gripping. (primate human evolutionary trend) |
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| homiothermy (all mammals) |
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| ability to control body temp. (by sweating when hot, shivering when cold, etc.) |
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| 3 ideas for how the Native Americans settled America |
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1.Americans were settled 40,000-50,000 yrs ago. no real facts for tht idea
2. 20,000 years ago came by way of bering strait
3. came across from Europe on ice masses |
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| site that dates back to around 12,000 BC. stone tools found there. |
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| studied physical characteristics of N.A.s and compared them with old world population. Dental characteristics one of the more stable traits |
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| only occur in China and the Americas. Upper paleolithic skeletons did not display sinodonty at that time. |
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| 14,000 BC site found, near Pittsburgh. Shows that humans are popping up everywhere. End up in Texas, New Mexico |
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| place in South America (Chile) where a site with artifacts preserved by water (peat) was found. Wooden tools. 12,000 BC approx. |
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| big-game hunters, hunter gatherers |
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| temperatures rise, land bridge melts |
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| 11,400-10,900, one of the earliest well-documented habitants of the new world, relatively short lived, travled all across N.A. and into central Am., first sites are big-game kill sites found in great plains, |
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| Animals Clovis people hunted |
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| bison antiquus, mammoths, mastodons, |
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| hunted smaller animals and foraged for plants, were constantly on the move, had tool kits |
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| lanceolate point. spear stick has hollowed end where the point is placed into the top. spear is dislodged when it sticks into the animal |
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| device that has spear on one end, hook on other,basically a spear thrower |
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| with the disappearance of the Clovis and similar cultures |
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| Hypotheses of why bison antiquus, mastodon, etc. became extinct |
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1st. over-hunting
2nd. changing environment, longer gestation pd. = offspring not surviving new environment?
3rd. change in mean temperatures |
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| Great diversity of environment in Americas... |
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| Around 8000BC...flood plains, desert environments, woodlands |
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| long period of hunters and gatherers, through late prehistoric, specialized lifeways, ice age is over |
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| allowed tribes to move from one location to another in seasonal rounds. also, can stay in one place for at least half the year. |
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| Archaic peoples hunted... |
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| smaller animals such as white-tail deer, rabbits, possums, armadillos, mice, etc. also fish, birds, vegetables |
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| dried feces. can be collected to see what the people ate. |
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| become domesticated as dogs, with breeding of different shapes, sizes, coats, colors, etc. later on. start with puppies, kill the ones that become aggressive. eventually dogs become tame. |
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| 1 places for 10 months or longer |
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| used for grinding materials |
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| hand held tool (mano) used for grinding materials across a surface (the metate). not just for plants |
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| tool used for removing big flakes, for initial shape |
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| antler, remove flat flakes to get a tool. to give it better shape |
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| pointed part of an antler. small flakes removed to sharpen or put knots in a tool. |
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| mass of lithic material from which flakes are removed |
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| a piece of stone detatched from core |
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| original outside surface of core |
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point of contact between core and the tool used for striking or placing pressure
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| bump on the ventral side of the flake |
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| waves of energy that follow bulb of percussion on the ventral side of the flake |
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| period of large game hunters in N.A. |
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| archaeological culture during paleoindian period characterized by a certain fluted point |
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| period of hunter-gatherers in Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia |
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