Prehistoric Man Cards
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- BCE
- Before the common era
- How old is the earth
- 4.5 billion years old
- !st primates
- 60 million years ago
- Emergance of hominids
- 8.4 million years ago
- hominids
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walk upright
member of group with humans& other related species - hunting and gathering
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hunting-men
gatering- women (berries, nuts, roots, fruit, weeds(plants) - Austrolopiticines
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small brain
big head
animal like - Binomial Nomenclature
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systomatic naming of living things
1st word is CAP. and 2nd one is not, when writing underline - Pre-history
- before writing was created
- Caves
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protect evidence
natural protective homes
lack of tech to build
occupational level- level of ground when each family is using it - Carbon dating
- used to establish the age of an artifact
- classifications for carbon dating
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must be at least 50,000 years old
must have been living - Carbon 14 in living things
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c-14 is absorbed by living things
the c-14:c-12 ratio remains constant
c-14 is always decaying but replacing it's self in living things - dating a fossil
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organisms stop absoring c-14 when they die
when c-24 decays it doesn't replace itself
has a half life of 5,100 yrs. - Paleontologists
- record th history of fossil remains and life of eaths earliest living creatures
- Anthropologist
- study human biology/origins, society, and cultral pratices
- Ethnographers
- study surviving, preliterate societes
- the genus "Homo"
- had to make or use tools
- Challenges of Ancient History
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Lack of writing- author's perspective, usually wealthy, in power and male
ARCHAEOLOGY-open to interpretation, partial evidence, different state then the original, location-could be helpful becaus it could tell how people migrate from place to place
nothing is certain- later evidence skew the view on something, just hypothesis' because none of us were there