Class Slides Set 11B Some Important Concepts Misc.
Glossary Some important things you ought to know about...
Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil” “osteodontokeratic” the “Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Times”
Important Concepts range of variation
Range of Variation. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 99
George Washington Morrison ("Commodore") Nutt 29” tall Phineas T. Barnum
Efe Eastern Congo (formerly Zaire) Average Height male4’ 8” female4’ 5” Source: Boaz and Almquist Biological Anthropology, 2 nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 2002), p. 426 Pygmies 1904
The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 7 ft. 7 in. Robert Pershing Wadlow ( ), Alton, IL, was 8 ft. 11. in.
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
Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages
% ½ % -- “normal distribution curve” %
Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil”
Glossary any impression, or trace, of an animal or plant of past geological ages -- including / footprints or tracks fossil Hominid footprint from Laetoli, Tanzania, p. 232.
Mary Leakey
Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil” “osteodontokeratic”
keratic = "horn" osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth"
Glossary osteo = "bone" osteodontokeratic
Harappa ( c BC) p. 466 osteo = "bone"
Glossary donto = "tooth" osteodontokeratic
donto = "tooth"
Glossary osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" keratic = "horn" osteodontokeratic
Devon Island, High Arctic Canada keratic = "horn"
Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil” “osteodontokeratic” the “Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Times”
Time Periods (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807) Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time 3.Iron Age 2.Bronze Age 1.Stone Age
Time Periods (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807) Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time 3.Iron Age 2.Bronze Age 1.Stone Age
Time Periods 1.Paleolithic “The Old Stone Age” “The Stone Age” 3.Neolithic “The New Stone Age” 2.Mesolithic “The Middle Stone Age”