this happen to humans in the near future? The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event‚ or the K-T event‚ is the name given to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and other species that took place about 65 million years ago. For many years‚ paleontologists believed this event was caused by climate and geological changes that interrupted the dinosaurs’ food supply. However‚ in the 1980s‚ father-and-son scientists Luis (1911-88) and Walter Alvarez (1940- ) discovered in the geological record‚ a distinct
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all over the world‚ all saying pretty much the same thing‚ fire breathing‚ giant‚ flying beast. As much as I’d like for you just to believe the stories‚ I know that won’t happen. There is proof that Dragons are real as well as stories. Scientist/Paleontologist found an actual dragon corpse‚ and if you don’t believe that‚ they also figured out how a dragon does what dragons do (breath fire‚ fly‚ and strike terror into people). They figured out how they survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and so
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Chapter 1 Summary Tuesday‚ September 09‚ 2014 1:26 PM This sections tells us what exactly anthropology is-- study of physical and learned characteristics of human beings and primates. Interesting fact human behavior is learned and humans are merely "the result of long time interactions between biology and culture AKA BIOCULTURE." It also Contains five subfields: 1. Cultural Anthropology i. Studies of patterns and beliefs in modern/ historical behavior 2. Linguistic Anthropology i. Study
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Abstract This paper considers the process-oriented nature of the field of archaeology together with techniques designed to make those processes successful. The process is outlined beginning with the archaeologist establishing goals for a project‚ followed by research‚ fund-raising‚ surveying‚ and site testing. Special attention is then paid to the heart of any archeological project: techniques of excavating‚ relic dating and analysis‚ and preservation.
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A stereotype can be defined as idea or claim made about a group of people or profession that was formulated without any evidence to back up the claim. When it comes to archaeologists there are many stereotypes‚ where few of them hold any truth. For example‚ some stereotypes include: all archaeologists are men‚ archaeologists are looking for something that is lost‚ they are often in highly dangerous situations‚ they have people trying to kill them and they win over a girl when they find what they
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the Alps in South Tyrol‚ Italy in September of 1991‚ Otzi “the ice man” had over 50 tattoos placed in different areas of his body. Some were along his wrist and ankles. Others were placed along his back. Form the unique placing of his tattoos‚ anthropologist think his tattoos were used for therapeutic treatment and not symbolic like most tribal tattoos. Otzi tattoos were made by fine incisions into which charcoal was rubbed (Demetz). There is very little chance of ever knowing the true reason behind
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Introduction The concept of sacrifice is a fundamental basis of almost every religion. However‚ its manifestation in the form of human sacrifice is both more controversial and‚ as a result‚ rarely studied by anthropologists today. As one scholar observes: "The modern social anthropologist does not best endear himself to the elite of the Third World by an obsessive interest in how great-grandfather shrunk the heads he hunted or in the quality of the wood needed to burn great-grandmother alive" (Davies
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People in charge of a building project‚ such as project developers‚ may not realize they are about to build on top of an ancient prehistoric site‚ which is why there has been a federal law that now requires an archaeologist to come out to check land that may be developed. An archaeologist job is to work in the field and scientifically record and recover any artifacts they may find‚ usually
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The Grandfather Turtle is the Missing Link in Turtle Evolution Paleontologist Rainer Schoch of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/) in Germany believes that Pappochelys is the missing link between lizards and turtles. The reptile’s age and the fact that it is the oldest fossil
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Unfortunately‚ as we noted in the introduction‚ most ancient historians and archaeologists generally want several separate sources of evidence before they will believe something to be factually substantiated‚ and that is simply not possible in the case of the Garden of Eden. This is not the only time we will run into this problem
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