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Important Concepts: Range of Variation, Statistical Averages, Fossils, and Prehistoric Ages

Learn about the range of variation and statistical averages in physical anthropology and archaeology, including the concept of fossils and the Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Times.

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Important Concepts: Range of Variation, Statistical Averages, Fossils, and Prehistoric Ages

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  1. Class Slides Set11B Some Important Concepts Misc.

  2. Glossary Some important things you ought to know about . . .

  3. Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil” “osteodontokeratic” the “Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Times”

  4. Important Concepts range of variation

  5. Range of Variation. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 99

  6. Phineas T. Barnum 1810 - 1891 George Washington Morrison ("Commodore") Nutt 29” tall 1844 - 1881

  7. Efe Eastern Congo (formerly Zaire) Average Height male 4’ 8” female 4’ 5” Pygmies 1904 Source: Boaz and Almquist Biological Anthropology, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 2002), p. 426

  8. 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.

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

  10. The Guiness Book of Records ”The Most Dissimilar Couple in the World” wife: 2’ 11½” husband: 6’ 2” They met on the internet -- The Maury Show, 27 April 1999

  11. Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages

  12. “normal distribution curve” ------ 68 % ------ -- 2 ½ % -- -- 2 ½ % -- ------------------------------ 99 % -------------------------------

  13. Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil”

  14. Glossary 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.

  15. Mary Leakey

  16. Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil” “osteodontokeratic”

  17. osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" keratic = "horn"

  18. Glossary osteo = "bone" osteodontokeratic

  19. osteo = "bone" p. 466 Harappa ( c. 3300-2800 BC)

  20. Glossary osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" osteodontokeratic

  21. donto = "tooth"

  22. Glossary osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" keratic = "horn" osteodontokeratic

  23. keratic = "horn" Devon Island, High Arctic Canada

  24. Important Concepts range of variation statistical averages “fossil” “osteodontokeratic” the “Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Times”

  25. Time Periods (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807) Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time • Iron Age • Bronze Age • Stone Age

  26. Time Periods (Jurgensen Thomsen, 1807) Three Great Ages of Prehistoric Time • Iron Age • Bronze Age • Stone Age

  27. Time Periods Paleolithic “The Old Stone Age” “The Stone Age” • Neolithic • “The New Stone Age” • Mesolithic • “The Middle Stone Age”

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