ANTH 1001 : ANTH Final Exam Study Guide
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Symbolism shapes, alphabet, cave art: venus figurines very curvy female carvings. Complex tools stone blades on wood as arrows/spears, carefully chipped stone for sharpness. Evidence of how and when we got there comes from lake. Mungo where a very old skeleton was found. They must have had some sort of watercraft. Wallace"s line was a line through a continental shelf that asian and australian species don"t cross because of the difficulty: megafauna- giant versions of animals that we have today. It is a monotremes (mammals that lay eggs) such as bids, and marsupials. The extinction of the megafauna has been attributed to modern humans. Bering land bridge was present until about 15,500 years ago. The bering land bridge was where russia and alaska was connected as one big land mass. Large and very sophisticated: folsom point: 1000-8000 bp, evidence of pre-clovis, there are probably a dozen documented sited with pre-clovis archaeological material, spread from alaska to chile in s. america.
