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Anthropology 130 Final Flashcards

1
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Truth concerning velociraptors

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A lot smarter than we thought

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2
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Truth concerning king kong

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Demensions not depicted correctly

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3
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44%/66%

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44% believe in evolution/ 66% believe evolution isn’t real

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4
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The gargantua hype

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Big gorrilla

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5
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Teilhard De Chardin: Thinker of the middle road

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believed in similtaneous evolutionary theory and catholacism
Looked for a link

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6
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Mickey mouse and evolution

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Evolved with people overtime

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Contingency and evolution

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Accident that can change the course of evolution

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8
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Ray Bradbury and contingency

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Minor differences make big evolutionary differences

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9
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Gigantopithecus

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Largest primate that ever lived

400,000 years ago

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10
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Problem with “Pithecanthropus Erectus”

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Means ape man 1/2&1/2

Completely false

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11
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Wallace and the orangutan

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hy should the gorilla be our ancestor?

Could it be an Orangutan

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12
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5 Problems with dubois statue

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Constricted head
Long fingers
Short thumbs
Long legs
Large feet
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13
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Ngangdong

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Collection of skulls

Could have been a cult of skulls

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14
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Tsantsa

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South American shrunken head

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15
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Berekhat ram

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Female figurine

Large hips

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16
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Draw the hand axe/ Chopper comparison

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draw

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17
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Hand axe as complex idea

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Requires multiple steps of thinking

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18
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Schoningen

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Long wooden speare with points hardened in fire

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19
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The major controversy of neanderthal

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How smart they were

How much they are like homosapiens

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20
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True cave purpose

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Temples and churches

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21
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Cliff shelter purpose

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Living and burial

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22
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Psychology of the cave- List four factors

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Distort your sense of time
Auditory difference (echos)
Equilibrium
Visual distortion

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23
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Phenomenology of the cave

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Overall impression a human has when experiencing a cave

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24
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Mythopeic

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Anything that inspires a myth

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25
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Intentional burial

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Paloelithic burial

26
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Eschatology

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What groups believe about what comes after death

27
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Sacred and Profane

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World divided into sacred and profane things

28
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Tata

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Disc with cross in center

First example of complex symbol

29
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Animism

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Spirits exist in all things

30
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Circumpolar Bear Cult

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Polar region groups tend to have bears as part of culture

Respect/ Revere bears

31
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Bear Anthropomorphism

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Especially sacred

Tendency to humanize bears

32
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Ursus Spelaeus

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Cave bear

Neanderthals

33
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Pleistocene Megafauna

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Ice Age

Large animals/ hunted by neanderthals

34
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Drachenloch

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Cave bear found here

35
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Cave bear icon

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Bone going through zygomatic arch

36
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Cult of the cave bear

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First evidence of religion

37
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La Ferrasie: Oldest cemetary

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70,000BP

Southern France

38
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Burial #5

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La Ferrasie
9 domes or mounds
baby at the top of mound

39
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Burial #6

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La Ferrasie

Cluster of bones

40
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Rock cover of Burial #6

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Indented with cupules

dyads- first symmetrical patterning

41
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Shanidar

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Iraq

70,000BP

42
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Burial IV

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Shanidar

Crippled old man- Shows the value of knowledge

43
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Empyrean

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Spiritual aspects of the sky

44
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Tellurian

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Spiritual aspects of the surface of the earth

45
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Chthonic

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Sacred aspects under the surface of the earth

46
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Tuc Du Audoubert…The first church

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Pattern of increased sacredness
cave
oldest example

47
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Childrens chamber

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Tuc Du Audoubert
Circular pattern of child foot prints
in room

48
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Altar of rotunda

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2 bison painting

49
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Altimira…The bison ceiling

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Cave in Spain

Natural bulges painted with bison

50
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Chauvet…35,000 BP

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Art was fully matured15000 years earlier than previously believed

51
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Lascaux hall of the bulls

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Largest prehistoric paintings ever created

Rushing into caves

52
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Lascaux the shaft

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First evidence of narrative

Shaman

53
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Les trois freres dancing master of the animals

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Chimera power of the animals

Rampant posture

54
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Les trois freres the great bull horse

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Shows density of bull and animal drawing

55
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Palimpest

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Clearing a canvas to add more art or writing

56
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Proleptical art

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Depict something in the present you wish to happen in the future

57
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Contagious magic

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Part of something that can influence the whole

58
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Imitative magic

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If you have something like something you can control that thing

59
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Leroi Gourhan’s theory of the cave

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Even distrubution of animals in kingdom

60
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The venus figurine

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Faces anonymous

Fertility symbols/ large breasts

61
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Elements of a paleolithic burial: Draw the burial and label eight aspects

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draw and label then check

Anthropology 120/130 (4 decks)

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