FINAL Flashcards

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Mt. Ararat

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Supposed location of Noah’s Ark

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Lubantuun

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  • Discovery location of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull

- Discovered by Frederick and Anna Mitchell-Hedges

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Paluxy River

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Best known for dinosaur footprints

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4
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Frederick Mitchell-Hedges

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  • Discovered the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull at Lubantuun
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Anna Mitchel-Hedges

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  • Discovered the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull at Lubantuun
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Eugen Boban

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Original owner of the Musee Quai Branly Crystal Skull

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7
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Jane Walsh

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  • Works at the Smithsonian Museum

- Claims all crystal skulls are forgeries

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Fernand Navarra

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  • French explorer

- Found a 5-foot wooden beam on Mount Ararat

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9
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Tzompantli

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Mesoamerican “Skull Rack”

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10
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Intelligent Design

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Scientific Creationism

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Nova Zembla

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Scottish Whaling ship which sunk off Baffin Island

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13
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God A

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Mayan god found in inscriptions

- Common figure, a dancing skull-faced underworld creature

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14
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God L

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Mayan god found in inscriptions

- Anthropomorphic rabbit

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15
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Scopes Monkey Trial

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  • American legal case in 1925
  • Trial over whether modern science (Evolution specifically) should be taught in schools
  • Kind of a farce as thetrial as deliberately staged to draw attention to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee
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Erebus

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  • Ship sent to find the Northwest passage (sank on the voyage)
17
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Biostratigraphy

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the branch of stratigraphy concerned with fossils and their use in dating rock formations.

18
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Elgin Marbles

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Lord Elgin obtained Marble sculptures from the Parthenon in the early 1800s

19
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Great Zimbabwe

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20
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Four best known Crystal Skulls?

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  1. The London Skull
  2. The Musee Quai Branly Skull
  3. The Smithsonian Skull
  4. The Mitchell-Hedges Skull (Skull of Doom)