The Early Humans Flashcards

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Archaeologist and Anthropologist

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Archaeologist can find out how the early humans made and used tools and lived in their habitat

The size shape of a bone and markings left by muscles help anthropologist learn how the early humans more and held tool

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Dating techniques

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Radiocarbon technique used for dating remains associated with all organisms

Thermolieminisense dating used for dating waste material such as pottery and Terracotta items

Potassium argon used for dating volcanic rock

Electrons when resonance dating used for dating bones and shell

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Stone age

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In the 19th century daenis scholar Christian j Thomson campus 3 system to study the human parts first is always stone age due to the production and use of stone tools the and date is when the first use of bronze was there the earliest global date for the beginning of the stone age is 2.5 million years ago in Africa

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Chalcolithic age

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The Neolithic age of followed by chalcolithic age this is distinguished by the use of stone and copper tools hence name chalcolithic age farming hunting and fishing where some of the occupations of the chalcolytic people crop such as wheat rice green peel and till green gram and black gram where grown

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Megaliths

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The practice of erecting megalith started around 3000 years ago

#People carefully put together to make burial side
#this practice work prevalent in the northeast Deccan Kashmir and South India

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Paleolithic site in India ( hunsgi )

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Paleolithic remains have been found in the hunsgi region in Gulbarga district Karnataka

#The site is situated on the banks of the Hunsgi river a tributary of the Krishna
#in one of the exavated sides huge granite blocks are found arranged across 63 square metres

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Neolithic sites in India ( sarutaru )

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Saro taru is a small town situated 25 km southeast of Guwahati

#this Neolithic site lies on the top of a small heel lock about 125 m high
#artefacts include retrieved from the side handmade pottery made of clay and quart particles have been found

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Burzahome

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Is located 16 km North East of Srinagar about 1800 m about sea level

#some traces of a bit houses that sheltered people from the cold
#other finds include then for different types of further for they were used for cooking food and storing things

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Chalcolithic site in India ( inamgaon )

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It is located on the right bank of river God a tributary of the Bhima it is well spirit side spread across 65 equals and consisting of five mounds forming a rough semi circle

Just large enough for the purpose and oriented in north south direction

Excavations have less than the gap between the calculator phase and the early historic period in India by almost 3 century

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