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| What did Donald Johanson find? |
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| The remains of a female hominim. |
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| What was the hominim remains named and why? |
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| Lucy because that's what was playing when they were celebrating |
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| Afar desert of Etheopia in northeastern Africa |
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| What is bipedalism and why is it an advantage? |
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Improved upright walking
It is more energy efficient, frees the arms, exposes a small body surface to the sun which is important if you wanna venture beyond the rain forest or savana into the gasslands |
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| What tools did Paleolithic use? |
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| What are Oldowan tools? How were they made? |
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| Simple stone tools that consisted of splitting a stone in two to produce sharp edges on both fragments |
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| When do we think modern humans (Homo Sapiens) emerge? |
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| What does Homo Sapiens mean? What were the two characteristics that these humans had that distinguished us from earlier lineages? |
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Means wise man
1) rapidly developing TECHNICAL SKILLS
2) CULTURAL CREATIVITY |
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| What is a forager society and where did they live? |
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Male dominated hunt mixed with communal gathering of vegetal foods (hunting and gathering)
lived in sheltered places by cave enterences and rock overhangs, but also campsites with huts made from branches |
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| Why was obsidian important to a forager society? |
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| It was a rare material (glass-like hard rock) to make tools with |
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| What are the primary beliefs in the development of gender roles? Do we truly know what gender roles were in prehistoric times? |
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Males and females spent most of their time collecting and preparing vegetal foods together.
Male- dominated hunt was exta job
NO we are not sure |
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| What does your book think the purpose of jewelry was? |
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| Its beauty gives a distinction and makes it a symbol of whatever human emotions it is designed to express. |
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| what is an abstract symbol |
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| Using something to express something else, such as jewelry for feelings |
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| When do we think that modern humans left Africa? |
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| Between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago |
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| What were the food resources that the Australian Aboriginal people utilized? |
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| Australian animals, marsupials, eels, seal, and plant life, wild millet and rice, solanum, yam daisy, quandong fruit, pine nuts, flax, acacia seeds, bracken, blindweed, (yam taro banana= northeast) |
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| things or practices that were forbidden |
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| what is dreamtime in aborigonal studies? |
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| The ancient period in which the lineage’s past was embedded. It consisted of stories, customs, and laws |
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a human line that was more primitive than but overlapped with h. sapiens
they were already in europe when sapiens arrived |
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| where did neanderthals live? |
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| Western Europe, altai mountains of eastern asia, middle east |
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| What differences do we see in neanderthals burial practices compared to from Homo Sapiens? |
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| Neanderthals buried their dead without gifts of jewelry or sprinklings of red ochre ( symbol of lifeblood ) which modern humans did include in the graves |
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| What were the differences in body structure between h sapiens and neanderthals? |
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| Neanderthals were smaller and more heavily boned than modern humans |
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| What were the differences between h sapiens and neanderthals linguistic ability? |
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| Neanderthals were able to speak in a rudimentary way but did not possess the throat structures of homo sapiens |
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small stone, bone, (one clay) figures that depicted women
some thin some bulging
bulging were fertility goddesses
western europe |
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| How did ice ages allow humans to migrate to North America? |
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Severedly altered flora and fauna on all continents
ice sheet of alberta split, making a narrow passage allowing migration from alaska to north america possible for 500 years |
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| How did the climate change in Africa and Australia during the ice age? |
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| The rain forest was reduced to only central Africa and the northern tip of Australia. The rest of the continents were exposed to drought. Northern Saharan, southern Kalahari in Africa, interior of Australia were giant deserts that cut deep into what were once rich savannahs and rain forests. |
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| Why did humans survive where many species disappeared in the ice age? |
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| They had a great variety of survival tools. For hunting they had harpoons, fishhooks, darts, boomarangs, and were aided by dogs to hunt. Made the canoe so trade was possible. They made warm clothing as well |
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| What was the Beringia land bridge? |
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| A land bridge caused by dropping sea levels that connected asia and north America to Siberia and the Americas it was ½ million square |
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| Why were land bridges important to early humans? |
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| The southern ridge of Berignia allowed for possibility of survival as they contained forests of birth, willow, and alder while everywhere else was covered in ice or tundra. Also they allowed for passage and migration. |
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| Why do we think the Neanderthals disappear? |
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| They were used to warm and wet climates. They could not adapt when the ice age hit. |
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| What ancestry do we think the Kennewick man and Spirit cave mummy are? |
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| Ainu of Japan (East Asian) |
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