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midterm ONE - Sites Flashcards

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Laetoli

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tanzania, famous hominem footprints found by mary leakey . “The Laetoli Footprints” –> bipedalism belonging to lucy’s kind

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Dolni Vestonice

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czech republic
mammoth hunters
gravettian tools
kiln
portable art
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Lascaux

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caves in france with paintings paeleolithic

images of large animals that lived there during that time

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Monte Verde

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chile, dates 1000 years before clovis

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Cahokia

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largest and most complex archaeological site in mexico

mad mounds out there bruh

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Tehuacan

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transition from hunter gatherer to a more agricultural way of life
-corn
Teosinte is the predecessor of maize

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Olduvai Gorge

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stretches across east africa
development of humans with stone tools found here
evidence of hunting

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Guitarreo Cave

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peru
evidence of living humans
jawbone found

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Abu Hureyra

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postglacial site in southwest asia
excavated 1 million cubic meters of earth
2 or 3 thousand inhibitants

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Catalhoyuk

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densely settled population
pottery
seasonal floods
obsidian and flint
james mellaart - large excavations
ian hodder-detailed interdisciplinary international reflexive method
rectangular buildings packed in blocks no streets small openings entry from roofs
Constant rebuilding
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Gobleki Tepe

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older than stonehenge
in Turkey
sanctuary

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Pompeii

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destroyed by vesuvius

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Stonehenge

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burial grounds for earliest beginnings

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‘Ain Mallaha

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israel
one of the earliest village settlements
population of 200-300 people
plates bowls mortars and pestels
PIGS
tooth decay indicates cereal consumption
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Star Carr

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birch and brushwood platform that was positioned on the edge of a lake
visited by mesolithic hunters
wooden oar
dog remains show domestication

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Hadar

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ethiopia

where lucy was found

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Vedbaek

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mesolithic graveyard dating around 5000 BC
contains at least 22 individuals
elderly buried with deer antler
men with flint knives
women with jewelry made of shells
more than 60 species of animal bone showing a varied diet

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Guila Naquitz

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cave in oaxaca mexico

first domestication of any crop being a type of corn

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Hopewell

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Known as Mound builders, people in the Ohio river valley. The built large elaborate earth mounds that were used as tombs or for ceremonies

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