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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, 8th ed., p. 99
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George Washington Morrison ("Commodore") Nutt 29” tall 1844 - 1881 Phineas T. Barnum 1810 - 1891
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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
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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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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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------ 68 % ------ -- 2 ½ % -- “normal distribution curve” ------------------------------ 99 % -------------------------------
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Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil”
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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.
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Mary Leakey
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Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil” “osteodontokeratic”
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keratic = "horn" osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth"
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Glossary osteo = "bone" osteodontokeratic
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Harappa ( c. 3300-2800 BC) p. 466 osteo = "bone"
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Glossary donto = "tooth" osteodontokeratic
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donto = "tooth"
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Glossary osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" keratic = "horn" osteodontokeratic
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Devon Island, High Arctic Canada keratic = "horn"
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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 (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807) Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time 3.Iron Age 2.Bronze Age 1.Stone Age
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Time Periods (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807) Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time 3.Iron Age 2.Bronze Age 1.Stone Age
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Time Periods 1.Paleolithic “The Old Stone Age” “The Stone Age” 3.Neolithic “The New Stone Age” 2.Mesolithic “The Middle Stone Age”
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