ANTH 1001 : Anthro Test 3 STUDY HARD
Document Summary
Bones and teeth can be destroyed by physical, chemical biological forces. Fossilization- protection from forces of destruction (e. g. death near water or in cave) Sources of bias in fossil record: body of species, where fossilization occurs, exposure and discovery of fossil. Epoch of cenozoic era: epochs time perioid, paloence 65 to 56 mya, eocene 56 to 33 mya, oligoecene 33 to 23 mya, miocene 23 to 5 mya, pliocene 5 to 1. 8 mya, pliestocene 1. Mya to 10,000 ya: holocene recent 10,000 ya to present. Cenezooic era: north america and europe were connected to one another during paloence and eoucnce explains geographical distrubtuion of early primates, africa was an island continent prior to 19 mya. Explain geographical distribution of apesduring miocene: problem issue: colonization of madgascar by lemurs, how did lemurs colonize madgascar. Madgascar was an island before the emergence of primates. Piltdown had less fluorine than contemporaneous fossils. Examples of chronometric dating: potassium-argon dating (k-ar)
