Archaeological And Scientific Studies Flashcards

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Mitochondrial DNA is the tracing of Maternal lineage to the 1st African woman in East Africa . Its population had Intracontinental migration to Ethiopia , Sudan and Chad ( Central Africa ) for settlement. This is a tangible evidence in my DNA profile . Name at least 2 African Countries of Human Origin. Note my ancestral homeland .

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Kenya and Etiopia.

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The Archaeological discovery of Rupestrian aesthetics at the Apollosite . It was fossilized evidence of Rock painting predating to 24,000 years ago as found in this country .

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Namibia

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A Sultry , hot , Dust bearing wind of the North African Desert

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Ghibli

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The Scarab is an Archaeological Artifact depicting Amenirdis I of the 8th Century B.C. Era (700 B.C. s) . Its Amulet bore the Demotic inscription, which gained a nominal popularity among Historians , Archaeologists , and Egyptologists.

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Scarab

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There is an enshrined Burial Chamber at Sanam Temple as dedicated to King Aspelta . It embodies these treasure trove : the Sarcophagus of King Aspelta , Gold and silver vases ; auriferous and gilted cylinder ; Silver spouted beakers ; inscribed alabaster jars ; and faience ankh as a votive offering . The Ankh revealed the ancient demotic cartouche. The Archaeological excavation of these relics was made at this neoteric East African country.

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Sudan , du jour

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This tangible object is a representational symbolism and emblem of Life. Characteristically , it is shaped with a cross bearing a loop and vertical arm morphologies . Usually , it has a votive offering and inscribed with the demotic cartouche.

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Ankh

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Two major Archaeological excavations were carried out by this founder. In 1916 , the exploratory team extirpated King Aspelta’s Sarcophagus. It is now houses at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The subsequent excavation launched in 1920 , which yielded the Aspelta’s fraternal construction of the Royal Palace. The King and his brother built this Majesty. Who was this Arhaeological Cognoscente and founder ?

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George Reisner

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This lexicon pertains to or is written in simplified form of the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic writing. Its Greek etymology is demotikos meaning of the people , common , ordinary of the cursive Egyptian script . Contextually , one say __?__ idiom.

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Demotic

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This lexicon pertains to or is written in simplified firm of the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic writing. Its Greek etymology is demotikos meaning of the people , common , ordinary of the cursive Egyptian script . Contextually , one say __?__ idiom.

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Demotic

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A large mound of earth used to conceal and cover the decendent corpse. ; A Cairn , Pyre , or Tumulus

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Barrow

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The Typologies of the Austopithecines anent the Pre SahelAnthropus Discovery . The fossils of antiquity are Archaeological evidence and relics of the past . It predated the oldest discovery : Sahelanthropus. Tchadensis . The Australopithecus Afarensis represents one of the typological Australopithecines. The scientific nomenclature came under dispute. The term , Lucy , was employed by European American Archaeologists to the umbrage of the Ethiopian indigenes. The Ethiopian Clerisy and Scholars Ayele Bekeries , assigned the Ethiopian African classification of Lucy. As “…Dinqnesh…”. He chimed”..Dinnesh, we insist and NOT LUCY , is a 3.1 million years old Human like species found in the Afar region of the Rift Valley of Ethiopia…” It Anthropological characteristics entails Bipedalism with upright locomation , short stature relative to the anatomically Modern Homo Sapien ( Humans ). Its emergence evolved around 4.2 million yrs ago . Anent the ecological habitat , the soliterraineous. And arboreal environ was replete with huge trees , cavernous shelters and rock lodges. Its subsistence included water , herbivorous plants , esculent food and nuts . The Ethiopian Dinqnesh personified as the Cradle of the Species in East Africa…” Provenance: The African American People : A Global History by Molefi Kete Asante

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Dinqnesh : An Australopithecus Afarensis

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In 3100 B.C. , this ancient vicinity was the Ancient Capital , seat pf government and political power base in Kemet.

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Memphis

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The Archaeological evidence bears a countervailing weight of strength akin to the Biological evidence : the Mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA) .The lexicon fossil implies any preserved relics from the past geologic age or as a remnant , impression , or trace of an organism of past geologic epoch as preserved in the Earth’s crust. Every fossil is antediluvian and mandarian that is quarried at the archaeological site. Etymologically speaking , the word fossil emanates from French fossile and Latin , fossilis meaning ‘ obtained by digging .

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Fossilized evidence

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This adjectival lexicon means of cavern and cave walls or of something done or lives on rock , cliff , and or cave wall. Its etymological origin stems from Latin , rupes “ meaning rock and cliff. And “ rupestris “ meaning found on rock. The Pre-Historic Tassil painting highlighted and illustrated the quintessential quality of rock painting featuring Dabous Giraffe . The __?__ arts is located also at the Western Air Mountain of Niger.

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Rupestrian

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This Hominid species emerged around 7.2 million years ago in Chad . Its emergence evolved long after the disappearance of the mammoth Dinosaur around 75 million years ago. They are the most common ancestors of both Humans and Chimpanzees. Archaeologists’ fossilized evidence were extirpated from the regional area of the Tebou tribe of Chad. The archaeological evidence is suggestive of Human Evolution and functions as a countervailing weight of strength as akin to the Biological evidence of the Mitochondrial DNA.

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SahelAnthropus Tchadensis

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