FINAL Flashcards
Mt. Ararat
Supposed location of Noah’s Ark
Lubantuun
- Discovery location of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull
- Discovered by Frederick and Anna Mitchell-Hedges
Paluxy River
Best known for dinosaur footprints
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges
- Discovered the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull at Lubantuun
Anna Mitchel-Hedges
- Discovered the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull at Lubantuun
Eugen Boban
Original owner of the Musee Quai Branly Crystal Skull
Jane Walsh
- Works at the Smithsonian Museum
- Claims all crystal skulls are forgeries
Fernand Navarra
- French explorer
- Found a 5-foot wooden beam on Mount Ararat
Tzompantli
Mesoamerican “Skull Rack”
Intelligent Design
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Scientific Creationism
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Nova Zembla
Scottish Whaling ship which sunk off Baffin Island
God A
Mayan god found in inscriptions
- Common figure, a dancing skull-faced underworld creature
God L
Mayan god found in inscriptions
- Anthropomorphic rabbit
Scopes Monkey Trial
- 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
Erebus
- Ship sent to find the Northwest passage (sank on the voyage)
Biostratigraphy
the branch of stratigraphy concerned with fossils and their use in dating rock formations.
Elgin Marbles
Lord Elgin obtained Marble sculptures from the Parthenon in the early 1800s
Great Zimbabwe
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Four best known Crystal Skulls?
- The London Skull
- The Musee Quai Branly Skull
- The Smithsonian Skull
- The Mitchell-Hedges Skull (Skull of Doom)
