Flashcards
Ch. 1
Cards in this deck (26)
- 1PrehistoryHistory before writing
- 2ArchaeologyStudy of ancient and recent human past through material remain
- 3ArtifactsTools, Weapons, Pots,
- 4AnthropologyStudy humans , & Culture
- 5Fossilearly humans dead bodies
- 6Radiocarbon DatingUsed to determine age
- 7Olduvai Gorgegorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
- 8LucyNickname for one of the most complete skeletons of an early ancestor of humans ever found. Discovered in Ethiopia by Don Johanson, Tim White, and Tom Gray, Lucy lived approximately three million years ago. She walked upright, and anthropologists estimate that she was about twenty years old when she died. Lucy is considered one of the great finds of anthropology.
- 9Australopithecusan extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago
- 10Ardieoldest skeleton of an early human 4.4 million years old discovered in Africa
- 11Homo Habilisan extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- 12Homo Erectusan extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
- 13Homo Sapiensan extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
- 14Neanderthalsan unenlightened or ignorant person; barbarian.
- 15Cro - Magonan Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- 16Palenolithic Ageancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools
- 17Lascaux CaveEarly humans made pics on the caves
- 18Neolithic Revolutionwas a fundamental change in the way people lived
- 19Domesticationlive in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.
- 20Catalhuyuka 32-acre Neolithic site in south-central Turkey, dated c6500–5500 b.c., one of the first true cities, characterized by a fully developed agriculture and extensive trading, particularly in obsidian, and having frescoed temples, mud-brick fortifications and houses, and mother-goddess figures.
- 21Culturehe arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
- 22Hominidall human & human - like creatures
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- 24Out Of AfricaAfrica between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, and later spread to the rest of the world
- 25Mary & Louis Leaky'sAnthropologist, who found the first prehistoric footprints, than skeleton
- 26Donald JohansonIn 1974, discovered the Lucy Skeleton
