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Anthro 2410 Chapter 6
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- 1Ngandong, JavaA site on the island of Java where the most recent fossil or Homo Erectus was found, dating between 46,000 and 27,000 years ago.
- 2SahulThe landmass that encompasses Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinia during the periods of low sea level.
- 3SundaThe landmass that connected much of southeast Asia during periods of low sea level.
- 4Wallace LineThe line that runs through Wallacea and separates the unique animals and plants of Australia from the animal and plant communities in south east Asia.
- 5Nauwalabila, AustraliaThe site that offers the earliest secure evidence of human occupation in Australia, dating to between 60,000 and 53,000 years ago.
- 6Lake Mungo, AustraliaOne in a series of dried out lakes located in Southern Australia where evidence of human occupation dates to between 50,000 and 46,000 years ago.
- 7MegafaunaSpecies of large animals that became extinct in many areas of the world, including the Americas and Australia toward the end of the Pleistocene.
- 8Fire-Stick FarmingA term used by Rhys Jones to describe the aboriginal use of fire in Australia.
- 9Gunbilngmurrung, AustraliaA site in Australia where a beeswax figure of a turtle was found, radiocarbon dated to 4,000 years ago.
- 10Lapita, Melanesian cultureA culture that spread across a vast area of Melanesia beginning 3,500 years ago and reached as far as the islands of Samoa and Tonga.
- 11Clovis First ModelThe Clovis culture, dated to 13,500 to 12,500 years ago, is the first human occupation in the Americas.
- 12Pre-Clovis ModelHuman occupation of the Americas predates 13,500 years ago.
- 13Early Arrival ModelHuman occupation of the Americas began as early as 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.
- 14Blackwater Draw, New MexicoA site near Clovis, New Mexico, where spear points were found in levels below Folsom points.
- 15Clovis CultureThe period many North American archaeologists view as the intial human occupation of the Americas, dated to between 13,500 and 12,500 years ago.
- 16Beringia BridgeA land bridge that connected Asia and North America during periods of low sea level.
- 17Ice-Free CorridorA potential migration route for populations expanding out of Beringia, running between the Cordilleran, and Laurentide Glaciers.
- 18NeananaThe earliest culture in Beringia, dating to between 14,000 and 12,800 years ago.
- 19Meadowcroft Rockshelter, PennesylvaniaA site in Pennsylvania where evidence was found supporting pre- Clovis occupation of the New World.
- 20Monte Verde, ChileA site in Chile where evidence of human occupation 15,000 years ago su[pports the argument that Clovis culture does not represent the first occupation of the Americas.
- 21Pedra Pintada, BrazilA site in the Brazillian Amazon that demonstrates that there were groups contemporary with the Clovis culture that were living in South America in a rain forest environment.
- 22Coastal MigrationThe route some archaeologists say was used by the earliest people in the Americas to move out of Beringia instead of moving through the Ice- Free Corridor.
- 23Pedra Furada, BrazilA site in Brazil where highly controversial evidence of human occupation dating to between 48,000 and 35,000 years ago, was found.
- 24Solutrean hypothesisThe proposal that the origin of the Clovis Culture was in the migration of groups from the Solutrean culture of Southern France.
- 25Kennewick, WashingtonA site in Washington where skeletal remains were found, dating to 9,200 years ago. Control and ownership of remains have been the subject of controversy.
- 26Wilson-Leonard Site, TexasA site in Texas with a stratigraphic sequence that includes both Paleoindian and Archaic occupations.
- 27Allumettes Island Site, Ontario-QuebecA site on the Ontario-Quebec border where a large number of copper tools have been recovered, dating to the Archaic period.
- 28Watson Brake, LouisianaA series of mounds in Louisiana built between 5,400 and 5,000 years ago that provide the earliest evidence of monumental construction in the eastern North America.
- 29DorsetA Paleo-Eskimo culture characterised by small winter village sites consisting of large rectangular structures.
- 30ThuleThe archaeological culture ancestral to contemporary Inuit.
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