Chapter 6

Question 1

ngandong

Answer 1

site on Java, most recent fossil of homo erectus found 46000 and 27000 years ago

Question 2

sahul

Answer 2

land mass connecting tasmania, australia, new guinea during low sea level

Question 3

sunda

Answer 3

land mass connecting vietnam, indonesia, malaysia, philipines, southeast asia during low sea level

Question 4

wallace line

Answer 4

runs through wallacea seperating unique animals and plants of australia and southeast asia

Question 5

nauwalabila I

Answer 5

earliest site of human occupation of australia 60 000 and 53 000 yrs ago

Question 6

lake mungo

Answer 6

series of dried out lakes evidence of human occupation 50 000 46 000 yrs ago

Question 7

mega fauna

Answer 7

extinction of large animals in amercias and australia at end of pleistocene period

Question 8

fire stick farming

Answer 8

rhys jone defination of aboriginal use of fire in australia

Question 9

gunbilngmurrung

Answer 9

site in australia where a beeswax figure of a turtle was found radiocarbon dated 4 000 yrs ago

Question 10

lapita

Answer 10

culture that spread across melanesia beginning 3500 yrs agoand reached samoa and tonga

Question 11

clovis first model

Answer 11

clovis culture dated 13 500 to 12 500 years ago, first human occupation in america

Question 12

pre clovis model

Answer 12

human occupation pre dates 13 500

Question 13

early human arrivle

Answer 13

human occupation began as early as 30 000 to 40 000 years ago

Question 14

blackwater draw

Answer 14

spearpoints were found in levels below folsom points near clovis

Question 15

clovis culture

Answer 15

period many north american archs view as initial human occupation of americas dated 13 500 and 12 500 yeears ago

Question 16

Beringia

Answer 16

land bridge connecting north amercia and asia during low sea level

Question 17

ice free corridor

Answer 17

gap between cordilleran and laurentide glaciers and potential migration route for populationgs expanding from beringia

Question 18

nenana

Answer 18

earliest culture of beringia dating between 14 000 and 12 800 yrs ago

Question 19

meadowcroft rockshelter

Answer 19

pennsylvania evidence found supporting pre clovis occupation of new world

Question 20

monte verde

Answer 20

chile, evidence of human occup 15 000 years ago supports argument of clovis first

Question 21

pedra pintada

Answer 21

site in brazillian amazon that demonstrates groups of contemporary groups with clovis that were living in south america in rain forest environemnt

Question 22

coastal igration

Answer 22

route used instead of ice corridor to move out of beringia

Question 23

pedra furada

Answer 23

site brazil, high controversial evidence of human occup dating bt 48 000 and 35 000 yrs ago was found (burnt patches associated w stone tools)

Question 24

solutrean hypothesis

Answer 24

proposal that origin of the clovis culture was in the migration of groups from the solutrean culture of southern france

Question 25

kennewick

Answer 25

skeletal remains found dated 9200 yrs ago. control adn ownership cause controversy

Question 26

wilson leonard site

Answer 26

site texas including stratigraphic sequence of both paleodian and archaic occupations

Question 27

allumettes island site

Answer 27

ontario quebuec border site large number copper tools have been recovered dating back to archaic period

Question 28

watson brake

Answer 28

mounds in louisana built bt 5400 and 5000 yrs ago that provides earliest evidence for monumental construction in eastern north america

Question 29

dorset

Answer 29

paleo eskimo culture characterized by small winter village sites containing large rectangular structures

Question 30

thules

Answer 30

archaeological culture ancestral to contemporary inuit