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Australopithecines characteristics and behaviour

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Characteristics: Smaller Brain size, reduction in front teeth, sexually dimorphic

Behaviour: Meat eating from scevenging, no evidence of hunting

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Paranthropis Characteristics and Behaviour

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Characteristics: More robustly built, Larger brain size, very large molars and premolars, large jaws for chewing, presence of sagittal crest, pneumatized

Behaviour: Adapted to a diet made of coarse vegetation, strong sexual dimorphism, possible gorilla-like behaviour

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The Habilines Characteristics and Behaviour

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Larger Brains, Rounder Skull, Smaller Teeth, Less facial prognathism, Postcranial like Australopithecines

Behaviour: Possibly first tool makers, Oldowan tool technology, possible uses as hammers, digging tools, etc.

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Australipithecus garhi Characteristics and behaviour

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Oldest fossil that we know of that has been using stone tools

Behaviour:: Tool use, butchery of meat

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Archaics Characteristics and behaviour

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Large brain size, modern human stature, more robust built, massive supraorbital torus, occipital torus

Behaviour: Hunted Large game, stone tools

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Satellite imagine or aerial photographs are best used to find evidence of:

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Large scale features or monuments

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Characteristics and Behaviour of Homo Erectus

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Larger body, Larger brain, robus built, less sexual dimorphism, Higher skull, less prognathic, smaller jaws and teeth, larger supraorbital torus, Occipital torus

Behaviour: First to potentially migrate out of Africa, New Tools (Acheulean tools), Hunters or Scavengers, Use of Fire, Made Shelters

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Homo Floresiensis Characteristics and Behaviour

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1m tall, Small brain, Island Effect
Behaviour: Used fire, Stone tools

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________ are associated with the earliest human culture to have existed in the _______

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Clovis Points, America

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Homo Sapiens Characteristics and Behaviour

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Roundest skull, Small teeth, presence of a chin, slender build, oldest remains in africa (?)
Behaviour: Contemporary with Neandertals (Coexisted), No evidence of cultural differences during that time

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Neanderthal Characteristics and Behaviour

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Australopithecines

Paranthropis

Australipithecus Garhi

Homo Erectus

Homo Floresiensis

Archaics

Neanderthal

Homo Sapien

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Oldowan tools can be described as

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Thin, symmetrical tools made by striking off flakes on alternating sides with a variety of stone, bone, and antler tools

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Characteristics of anatomically modern humans

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Lightly built post-cranial skeleton

Tiny or nonexistent brow ridges

A “Globular” brain case

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Name the following that are part of the genus Paranthropus

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Aethiopicus
Boisei
Robustus

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The earliest evidence for goat and cattle herding is about

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11,000 years ago

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Cultural borrowing that produces something new, drawing attention ot the positive processes of cultural creativity, is known as:

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Cultural hybridity

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What term is defined as understanding another culture in its own terms sympathetically enough so that the culture appears to be a coherent and meaningful design for living?

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Cultural relativism

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Which of the following refers to the process by which humans living with one another must learn to come to terms with the ways of thinking and feeling considered appropriate in their respective cultutres?

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Enculturation

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The advantages of cooking food include which of the following?

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Killing of parasites in food

An increase in nutrients extracted from the food

A more effecient way to preserve food

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When did the first Homo Species emerge

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2.4-1.5 MYA

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Which of the following are behaviours that do not need to be explained to members of one’s own culture? They are symbolic.

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Collective Understandings

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Which of the following is defined as a stratified society that possesses a territory that is defended from both outside enemies by an army and from internal disorder by a police force?

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The State

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What are arguments used to explain the origins of domestication?

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Migrating into new environments

Population growth

Long distance trade

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What are the differences between chronometric and relative dating methods?

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Relative dating methods reveal the order of a sequence of found objects, materials, or events found within a site. Discovereing which is older/newer.

While Chronometric dates the actual age in the number of years of said items, materials, events, etc, found at the site.`

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What is the importance of the grid system in archaeology?

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It serves as a way of mapping the entire site, by divvying up the larger site into smaller areas.

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What evidence is used to determine if fossil species were bipedal?

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If the fossils provide long bones

If it has a Foramen Magnum (Hole at bottom of skull, connecting spinal cord to brain)

The Pelivs/Hip Bone will be shorter but wider and a lot thicker

Finding a Femur is a good sign of Bipedalism, as the femur makes it effortless for us to stand up right.

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Hold at bottom of skull where spinal chord is attached to brain

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Foramen Magnum

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What and Who are the Protohominins?

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Early Hominins

Sarchelanthropus Tchadensis
Orrorin Tugensis
Ardipithecus Ramidus

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What are the general characteristics of Protohominins?

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Small Brain, Mostly apelike characteristics, Possibly Bipedal, Lived in forested environments

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Oldest Stone Tools

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Dikika
Lomoekwi
Nyayanga

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What are the theories on what happened to Neanderthals?

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Out Of Africa Hypothesis
- Modern humans migrate out of Africa and replace all archaic hominids

Partial Replacement Model
- Modern humans interbreed with other archaic hominids, but some are replaced

Multi-Regional Hypothesis
-All archaic hominids evolve into modern humans through gene flow

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