Exam 1 prehistory Flashcards
piffershire, CT
an abandoned town from the 18th to 19th century abandoned wall
imperial county
projectile points and manos and metates found
salton sea
use to be occupied by Lake Cahuilla used to cover mexicalla, imperial wen through cycles of wet and dry periods, Once a great resource for seasonal hunting, plant resources and fishing.
Mission san luis rey
indian and spanish artifacts construction completed in 1815
prohoroff poulty farm
Chicken farm where CSUSM used to be huge producer of poultry in california
CSUSM
Is Luiseno payokawichum homeland
paleoanthropology
anthropological study of the evolution of our species using skeletal remains and cultures of ancient hominins. There is a focus on the shift from quadruped to bipedalism.
Paleogenomics
Jennifer raff works on ancient DNA
Paleoneurology
studies evolution focusing on the development of the brain
Dean Falk
neuroanthropologist specializes on evolution of brain and cognition
Ethnology
comparitive studies of similarities and differences in human behavior example child rearing
Dr. Jocelyn ahlers
engages with native california communities (linguistics)
Amara
reevaluate women’s work in arch
Archbishop James Ussher
the young earth theory using the bible he calculated the created around 4,000 bc?
John Ray
the fixity of the world= the surrounding world reflects the world god created.
Historical view during renaissance
during the ren there was a recognition of the collapse of the roman empire and the
catastrophism
GEORGES CUVIER reasoned that extinction and the changing world has happened because god created the world then natural disaster like noahs flood created the changes in world like extinction
the industiral revoltuion
changed how live life needed to build houses bricks and wood then dig into ground using resources overall
uniformitarianism
layers in the ground have been created through weathering etc other things through the past
charles darwin
did not create of with the theory of evolution however he did create the theory of natural selection and proposed information needed for evolution
John Fere
found handaze though it could be made out of rhino bones and the people who fixed it lived before the flood