ANTH 145- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 43 pages long!)
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Paleoclimate records show that periods of increase and decline of temperature occur within a human generation (10-20 years) Encompasses 95% of human history as human beings. Historical sources (explorer accounts, missionaries, colonial administrators, adventurers) Intimate knowledge of the environment transferred over many generations. Equal access to resources (as long as you have the ability) Low rate of population growth (among the lowest ever recorded) Lots of exercise and low fat diet delays the onset of menarche. Hunter-gatherers knew how to plant seeds and change the environment to increase yields. Followed migratory herders of mammals and culled the herders. The pleistocene and holocene are in the quaternary period, cenozoic era, phanerozoic eon. Alternating warm and cold period (interglacial and glacial periods) The holocene is marked by a sharp increase in co2 and temperature. The pleistocene is generally thought of as the ice age (about 20 degrees below current) Analysis of the distribution of early artifact types.
