ANTH 215- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 85 pages long!)
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A relatively high level of cultural and technological development; specifically the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained. The cultural characteristics of a particular time or place (comes from anthropology, specifically franz boaz, made civilization a synonym for culture) Major cause of bias in history is the victors of various events, also often ethnocentric, create a different record of what happened in written records rather than more concrete in material records. evolution of humanity over time. The time scale of ancient civilizations, a lot of ice ages with a major influence on the. Paleocene end of time of dinosaurs, beginning of humans. Index fossils are incredibly specific to specific times and places. Calibration is radiocarbon dating a tree ring and creating a curve that allows for the correction of dates from radiocarbon dating.
