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Radiocarbon dating |
Living organisms maintain base concentration of Carbon-14 > decays at death {calculates date of death} |
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Radiocarbon dating works for... |
Organic material under 40,000 years old |
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Argon dating |
Identifies time of volcanic eruption |
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luminescence dating |
Measures accumulated dose of radiation |
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Thermoluminescence dating |
Burning resets radiation clock to zero: use on pottery, flint |
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Dk1 |
Olduvai gorge: inspired home base sharing model (temporary shelter) |
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Radiation |
When wide diversity of species evolves and each adapts to particular eco niche |
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Dispersal |
When a single species expands geographical range & eco niche |
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Blombos |
Ochre caches and incised ocher (early art?) |
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Where were the earliest cave paintings found? |
Chauvet |
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Eric boeda |
Studied levallois method; great diversity of neanderthal tool methods |
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Harold dibble |
Frisson effect: resharpening / disagreed with bordes on ethnicity |
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Childes neolithic revolution |
Transition to agriculture as an event that impacted every aspect of human society |
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Plastered skulls |
Found in pre pottery neolithic B : below floors (ancestor worship?) |
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Sig. Of Blue stones |
Location was far away in wales: why move them? |
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The oldest known city is.. |
Uruk |
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Bevel rim bowls are associated with.. |
Uruk |
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The uruk period was between.. |
4000 BCE and 3200 BCE |
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order of Giza Pyramids |
1. Cheops > 2. Cepheren > 3. Mycerinus |
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Dmansi |
Oldest known archaeological site outside Africa: in Georgian (1.7 MYA) |
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Hadar |
Lucy in the sky, earliest known stone tools (2.5 MYA) |
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Lokalailei |
Kenya, 2.3 MYA. Stone tool manufacturing evidence |
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When did Neanderthals first appear? |
175,000 years ago |
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When did modern humans first appear |
Between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago |
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Fried's definition of state societies |
Societies in which power is organized on a supra-kin basis or by a bureaucracy that uses force |
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Service's definition of state societies |
Government and laws backed by force, state has legitimate monopoly over use of force |
