midterm 1 Flashcards
Who was Olof Ohman
Founded Kensington runestone near kensignton minnesota that had viking writing. if legit would be proof that the western world was explored by the Scandinavian explorers in the New World in the 14th century.
who was Ignaz Semmelweis?
Used the scientifc method to attempt to solve why there were so many maternal deaths in Vienna General hospital
Ignatius Donnelly
wants to prove that Platos atlantis story is true and that Atlantis was where people changed from barbarians to civilization.
James Churchward
popularized “Mu” as “mother continent” and and put it with another lost continent Lemuria. Lemuria was a continent land bridge that explained the pesence of lemurs and other fossils in Madagascar and India. wrote 3 books with Mu in the title and the Mu had the Naacal civilization the Mu was destroyed the same was as atlantis. Mu was backed by some tablets sthat no longer exist
Jose de Acosta
Agued that humans and animals came into the new world using the same route using a route between Eastern Asia and the western region of the new world. this did not contradict with the bible
Charles Darwin
believed in evolution from apes
Louis Leakey
believed that tools found in South california (calico) were similar to the ones found in East Africa but they were actually formed by nature
Ivan Van Sertima
wrote “they came before columbus” his claim of an African presence in the pre-Columbian New World
Eugene Dubois
Discovered the Java Man which is combined with a primitive skull and upright stature
Raymond Dart
His claim that a creature with an ape-sized brain could have dental and postural characteristics approaching those of humans
Charles Dawson
Discovered the first piltdown fossils and was always involved for the finds related to piltdown
Kenneth Oakley
Exposed piltdown man as a hoax by fluorine testing
George Hull
Behind the Cardiff Giant Hoax
William Stub Newell
Farmer that come across the petrified cardiff giant
Graham Hancock
He believed archaeologists have ignored advanced ice age civilizations and atlantis
Augustus Le Plongeon
Translated a maya Indian book troano codex with a alphabet that conected maya to ancient egyptians
paradigm
a way of looking at things and is a standard, perspective and set of ideas
Scientific process
observation, induction(specific obeservations argue probable conclusions), deduction (generalities to specifics), Testing
scientific procesesses are
testable and falsifiable
Pseudoscience
does not follow rules of logic and evidence
epistemology
The branch of philosophy concerened with the nature, scope, and limitations of knowledge (awareness of facts)
Uniformitarianism
Earth has always changed in uniform ways and that the present is the key to the past.
Catastrophism
describes earths history as being stable with intermittent short live, cataclysmic events drastically shaping the surface
Phylogeny
The history of the evolution of a species or group especially in reference to lines of descent and relationships amoung broad groups of organism
