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Class Slides Set 11B Some Important Concepts
Misc.
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Glossary
Some important things you ought to know about . .
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Important Concepts

• range of variation
• statistical averages
• fossil
• osteodontokeratic
• the Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Times

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Important Concepts

• range of variation

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Range of Variation.
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 84
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www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanIDsa003articleID0
00C1A68-BA52-11F6-BA5283414B7F0000
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George Washington Morrison ("Commodore") Nutt
29 tall 1844 - 1881
Phineas T. Barnum 1810 - 1891
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http//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou
tthat/2969038/Worlds-smallest-man-meets-woman-with
-worlds-longest-legs.html
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming
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Efe Eastern Congo (formerly Zaire)
Average Height male 4 8 female 4 5
Pygmies 1904
Source Boaz and Almquist Biological
Anthropology, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 2002), p.
426
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The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is
7 ft. 7 in. Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918-1940),
Alton, IL, was 8 ft. 11. in.
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Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918-1940), Alton, IL,
was 8 ft. 11. in.
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www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.
asp?recordid53034
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The Guiness Book of Records The Most
Dissimilar Couple in the World
Wife 2 11½ Husband 6 2
They met on the internet -- The Maury Show, 27
April 1999
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Important Concepts

• range of variation
• statistical averages

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normal distribution curve
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normal distribution curve
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normal distribution curve
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-- 2 ½ --
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Important Concepts

• range of variation
• statistical averages
• fossil

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Glossary
fossil

• any impression, or trace, of an animal or plant
  of past geological ages
• -- including /
• footprints
• or tracks

Hominid footprint from Laetoli, Tanzania
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Mary Leakey
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Important Concepts

• range of variation
• statistical averages
• fossil
• osteodontokeratic

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osteo "bone"
donto "tooth"
keratic "horn"
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Tools and Technologies

• bone, tooth, horn / antler

• lithic (stone)

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Glossary
osteodontokeratic

• osteo "bone"
• donto "tooth"
• keratic "horn"

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Glossary
osteodontokeratic

• osteo "bone"

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Harappa (c. 3300-2800 B.C.)
9th p. 395
p. 466xxx
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Magdalenian bone artifact. Understanding Physical
Anthropology and Archaeology (9th ed), p. 292.
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Glossary
osteodontokeratic

• osteo "bone"
• donto "tooth"

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9th p. 306
http//www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ask/a6.htm
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Glossary
osteodontokeratic

• osteo "bone"
• donto "tooth"
• keratic "horn"

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Reconstruction of a Natufian gazelle horn reaping
knife, with inset flint blades. Understanding
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (9th ed),
p. 328.
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9th p. 306
Devon Island, High Arctic Canada.
www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/ArcticArchStuf
f/TLArts.html
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Tools and Technologies

• bone, tooth, horn / antler

• lithic (stone)

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Important Concepts

• range of variation
• statistical averages
• fossil
• osteodontokeratic
• the Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Times

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Time Periods
Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time

1. Iron Age

1. Bronze Age

1. Stone Age

• (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807)

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Time Periods
Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time

1. Iron Age

1. Bronze Age

1. Stone Age

• (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807)

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Time Periods
The Stone Age

• Neolithic
• The New Stone Age

• Mesolithic
• The Middle Stone Age

• Paleolithic
• The Old Stone Age