midterm ONE - People Flashcards
Ussher
- Traced biblical chronology
- Found out when creation happened according to the old testament
Cuvier
- French Naturalist
- Paleontologist
- “Profit of bones”
- convinced that the history of earth was marked by great catastrophes initiated by God
- “no humans lived before the flood”
- Catastrophism - changes that we observed have happened by a catastrophic event
William Smith
- William “strata” smith
- Humble field geologist
- expert on canals and farm damage
- realized that fossil content of geological layers could link widely separated (he could look down on a geological strata and could find fossil remains and then if he was somewhere else, if he found the same strata, he could find the same geological evidence. concluded that at some point in time, both places where at the same elevation
- thought that this natural process that formed the layers happen over a long period of time
De Perthes
• Became interested in finely made stone axes that were being dug out of river gravels from the same layers that contained the bones of elephants and other extinct animals
Dawson
- customs official in northern france
- collected prehistoric artifacts
- he wanted people to tell him about artifacts
- dug up stones that where in the same layers as animals
- pre-celtic, claimed that they were made by humans before the flood
Morgan (ethical periods)
Early american ethnologist
interested in local native Americans
formed “Grand Order of the iroquois” to promote their interests
Ethical Periods - Morgan
Ethical Periods: Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization
Savagery: Lower, Middle, and Upper status
Middle status figured out to eat fish, upper status figured out to use bow and arrow
Pottery gets out of savagery into barbarism
Lower: pottery, Middle: smelting iron ore into iron tools
Civilization
Phonetic alphabet, with the use of writing
Mary Leaky
discovered a trail of ancient humanlike footprints
