High inside the Arctic Circle‚ in one of the most unforgiving environment on the planet‚ two teams of paleontologists investigated a 70 million year old mystery. The paleontologist have unearthed dozens of dinosaurs‚ their bones complied together‚ fossilized‚ and preserved in permafrost for eons. The startling discovery of ancient reptiles‚ also known as the “thunder lizards‚” had taken scientists by surprise because it lived and thrived in the arctic. This discovery raises questions as to how
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The Beginnings of Civilization PREHISTORY • Absence of written records • Scientists rely on unwritten evidence Archaeologists-study places where prehistoric people lived Artifacts-objects shaped by human beings Fossils-human or animal bones and teeth Fossilized traces left in rocks by plants and animals Geologists- analyze fossils and the rocks in which they are found Chemists and Physicists-determines the age of the artifacts and other remains of the past THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE
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focuses on the emergence of human and their evolutionary relationship with other primates APPLIED ANTHRO - field attempt to produce practical results for modern-day problems‚ based on anthro research; practices all subfields of Anthro Archaeologist - compared to a historian‚ they are more likely to study cultures older than 5000YEARS! Biocultural Model - human biological diversity is interrelated to changes on social environmental conditions Ethnohistorians - investigate written documents
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Explain how Lucy could be viewed as “the missing link” Australopithecus Afarensis‚ commonly known as Lucy‚ can be seen by many scientific and historic facts as ‘the missing link’. Anthropologists show that Lucy is a transitional fossil which helps prove the way hominids changed throughout the ages. Bipedalism is the biggest and most important evidence that Lucy has shown to tell one how she lived in the chain of evolution. The morphology of Lucy’s skeleton has so many different characteristics
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are Australo-Melanesians. Today other groups of Australo-Melanesians are the Aborigines in Australia‚ Papuans and the Melanesians of the Solomon Islands‚ Vanuatu‚ Fiji‚ New Caledonia etc. The history of the Aeta continues to confound anthropologists and archaeologists. One theory suggests that the Aeta are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Philippines‚ who‚ contrary to their seafaring Austronesian neighbors‚ arrived through land bridges that linked the country with the Asian mainland
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Kinship: people related both by descent and marriage‚ while usage in biology includes descent and mating. Lapita: a term applied to an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture‚ which is believed by many archaeologists to be the common ancestor of several cultures in Polynesia‚ Micronesia‚ and some coastal areas of Melanesia. Levirate marriage: a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obligated to marry his brother’s widow‚ and the widow
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Civilization is a complex way of life that came about as people began to develop urban settlements. The earliest civilizations developed after 3000 BCE‚ when the rise of agriculture allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability. Agricultural populations advanced beyond village life‚ and many people no longer had to practice farming at all. Civilizations first appeared in Mesopotamia‚ in what is now Iraq‚ then in Egypt. Civilizations thrived in the Indus Valley by 2500 BCE‚ in China
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8 -dispatched to europe and north america -other insects and diseases cankill the trees or destroy their pods (1989 plague of withces-broom almost drove brazil out of business with cocoa) -by the time cortes discovered the axtecs cachuatal anthropologists say earlier inhabitants of the americas had been drinking it for a thousand years -what the spaniards found wasa domesticated variety of Theobroma cacao known as criollo-native to cetral and south america -criollo have pure white aromatic beans
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many secrets can be revealed about ancient reptiles and mammals. For instance‚ Shubin relates that “The bumps‚ pits and ridges on teeth often reflect the diet” (Shubin 60). By knowing the diet of an ancient creature‚ it is reasonable to see how a paleontologist and evolutionist can follow the emergence of the omnivore over the carnivore and herbivore. And the hardness of teeth make it the “best-preserved animal we find in the fossil record for many time periods” (Shubin 61). This clue to these ancient
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History is owned by A&E Networks. The television channel has been showing programs and documentaries since 1995. The History.com staff is made up of historians‚ doctors‚ paleontologists‚ archaeologist‚ and etcetera. On the website the article‚ The Berlin Wall‚ was written in 2009 for the use of knowledge and learning. As a television channel the information is given in both documentaries and articles. The article means to provide
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