Human Origins
Our current era
anthropocene
This marked the transition into the Neolithic era
agriculture
Two theories for how early humans came to North America
Bering Strait; Aleutian islands boats
Humors
Three major Chinese inventions which changed the world
Gunpowder, compass, printing
Tanis site
site in North Dakota that captures the day the dinosaurs were killed
The Acheulean enigma refers to
the mystery surrounding the Acheulean hand axe
Canyon where the sun dagger was found
Chaco canyon
What enabled Ancient Greek science to develop in more abstract ways?
It was a very unequal slave society
He sailed to Africa for China
Zheng He
neogeocatatrophism
referring to belief that major dramatic changes happen on the Earth quickly and through catastrophes
cladistic creep
the pressure in science, especially early human evolutionary science, to "discover" a new species
quipu
knot language used for Incan record-keeping
quintessence
the perfect "fifth element"; cosmology
qi
life essence in Chinese philosophy
Deep time refers to
the idea that all of human history is just an eyelash on the tip of our finger in the grand scheme of things
People in the middle ages thought Acheulean hand axes were
made by lightening
Term for ancient astronomy
paleoastronomy
The Greek cosmos are best understood in terms of ____
geometry, perfect circles
The Chinese cosmos are best understood as a _____
"forest", organic
Early modern Judeo-Christian historians dated the world to beginning on this day in the year
4004 BCE
"Lucy" the Australopithecus is an example of this
humanizing impulse, identity quest (multiple correct answers)
Maya blue is made by
mixing a rare type of clay with an indigo-related plant
Aristotle's four causes
Material, moving, formal, and final
Five elements in Chinese cosmology
water, wood, fire, earth, metal