Final Flashcards
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The Cardiff Giant
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- ‘discovered’ in 1869 by Stub Newell in upstate New York
- 10 ft tall stone ‘man’ petrified
- financial boon, jump in tourism
- rumours Stub Newell was bragging about the hoax
- scientific community questioned validity
- J.R. Bottom determined it was made out of soft gypsum and had been buried a year before discovery
- ‘remarkable fake’
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Kennewick Man
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- found along bank of Columbia river
- legal battles of race, role of science and application of federal law
- James Chatters
- preliminary analysis: European
- radiocarbon samples 9,000 years old (7330-7580 BC): paleo- Indian age, one of oldest prehistoric individuals in North America, but showed little resemblance of American Indians
- US army corps of engineers with tribal group confiscated remains - claiming rebuttal
- NAGPRA
- male in his 40s, well nourished, muscular and many injuries, arthritis
- looks like Patrick Stewart
- closest to Polynesians or Ainu of Japan
- prehistoric people multiple waves small distinct groups?
3
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James Chatters
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- did the forensic analysis and identification of bones of the Kennewick man
4
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Great Serpent Mound
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Adela culture burial mound
5
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Moundbuilders
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- believed moundbuilders were vanished race because it was believed that Indians were too primitive to build mounds and produce artistic artifacts
- mounds and associated artifacts were more ancient than Indian culture
- stone tablets with European, Asian, African inscriptions
- Indians at contact had no knowledge of noundbuilding
- metal artifacts of silver, iron, and alloys of copper found in mounds
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Thomas Jefferson
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- excavated burial mound in Virgins in 1780
- questioned origin of aboriginal peoples
- develop d archaeological methodology
- also firect d Lewis and Clark to investigate possible Irish Mandan near Canadian border
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Grace creek stone
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- found I. West Virginia mound in 1838
- inscribed with 25 characters- could be evidence of primitive alphabet
- probably a fraud
8
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Sican
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- 750-1350 CE
- north coast Peru
- closely related to Lambayeque culture
- royal burial at Huaca Lori by Izumi Shimada
9
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Windover
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- bog in Florida
- 168 skeletons
- early archaic period
- peat big with excellent preservation of organically, including brains
- both adult males and females, and children
- good forensic evidence of disease and trauma
- many organic artifacts
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Hoyo Negro
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Tulum, Mexico
- Naia, adult female, dated between 10,000-12,000 BP
- found in sink hole (cenote) near Tulum by cave divers
- associated with prehistoric animals (sloths, sabretooth cats)
- Native American DNA
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Windeby girl
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- big body from Europe with blindfold suggesting she was executed
12
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Mitochondrial Eve
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Common female ancestor from which all modern humans descended
13
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Spitalfields
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Roman cemetery in London with lead pigs
14
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Lapedo child
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- skeleton from Portugal with both Neanderthal and modern human characteristics
15
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Strontium isotope analysis
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Used to determine geographical origins
