Science of bones and fossils

Question 1

During which epoch did we see the earliest primates develop and the which epoch did they evolve?

Answer 1

Pleistocene and evolved in Holocene.

Question 2

How many years ago did humans fully evolve roughly?

Answer 2

11.8 - 11.6 Kya.

Question 3

When was the earliest homo sapiens evolved?

Answer 3

300 Kya.

Question 4

Role of someone in the field of palaeoanthropology?

Answer 4

Study of fossil evidence to understand earliest humans.
Physical and cultural evolution, migration.

Question 5

Significant footprints from history?

Answer 5

Trachilos, Laetoli and eve footprints.

Question 6

How are fossilised humans mostly found?

Answer 6

Accidents, Target research projects, Geological projects, quarries and caves.

Question 7

What is stratigraphy?

Answer 7

The idea that the soil is in layers, with contents of lower layers getting increasingly older.

Question 8

What is the law of superposition

Answer 8

A sequence that has accumulated through time - only sequence of deposition, not timing.

Question 9

Absolute dating techniques?

Answer 9

Radiometric dating
Radiocarbon dating
Potassium-argon dating
Uranium-lead dating

Question 10

Relative dating techniques?

Answer 10

Stratigraphy
Artefacts/Eco facts
Wood of coffins
Luminescence of soil
Document/burial records/grave stones

Question 11

What is issues coming with radiocarbon dating?

Answer 11

Carbon levels returning to same level they were before the war so you wont be able to distinguish a difference.