Class Slides Set 11B

Some Important Concepts

Misc.

GlossaryGlossary

Some importantthings you ought to know

about . . .

Important ConceptsImportant Concepts

• range of variation•statistical averages•“fossil”•“osteodontokeratic”• the “Three Great Ages

of Prehistoric Times”

Important ConceptsImportant Concepts

• range of variation

Range of Variation.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 99

George Washington Morrison("Commodore") Nutt

29” tall 1844 - 1881

Phineas T. Barnum

1810 - 1891

EfeEastern Congo(formerly Zaire)

Average Height

male 4’ 8”

female 4’ 5”

Source: Boaz and Almquist Biological Anthropology, 2nd ed.(Prentice Hall, 2002), p. 426

Pygmies 1904

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.

Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918-1940), Alton, IL, was 8 ft. 11. in.

The Guiness Book of Records

”The Most DissimilarCouple in the World”

wife: 2’ 11½”

husband: 6’ 2”

They met on the internet

-- The Maury Show, 27 April 1999

Important ConceptsImportant Concepts

• range of variation•statistical averages

------ 68 % -------- 2 ½ % -- -- 2 ½ % --

“normal distribution curve”

------------------------------ 99 % -------------------------------

Important ConceptsImportant Concepts

• range of variation•statistical averages•“fossil”

GlossaryGlossary

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.

MaryLeakey

Important ConceptsImportant Concepts

• range of variation•statistical averages•“fossil”•“osteodontokeratic”

keratic ="horn"

osteo = "bone"

donto = "tooth"

GlossaryGlossary

osteo = "bone"

osteodontokeratic

Harappa ( c. 3300-2800 BC)p. 466

osteo = "bone"

GlossaryGlossary

osteo = "bone"

donto = "tooth"

osteodontokeratic

donto = "tooth"

GlossaryGlossary

osteo = "bone"

donto = "tooth"

keratic = "horn"

osteodontokeratic

Devon Island, High Arctic Canada

keratic ="horn"

Important ConceptsImportant Concepts

• range of variation•statistical averages•“fossil”•“osteodontokeratic”• the “Three Great Ages

of Prehistoric Times”

Time PeriodsTime Periods

(Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807)

Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time

3. Iron Age

2. Bronze Age

1. Stone Age

Time PeriodsTime Periods

(Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807)

Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time

3. Iron Age

2. Bronze Age

1. Stone Age

Time PeriodsTime Periods

1. Paleolithic“The Old Stone Age”

“The Stone Age”

3. Neolithic“The New Stone Age”

2. Mesolithic“The Middle Stone Age”