Exam 1: Encountering the Past

The flint tools found by Boucher de Perthes were thought to be ancient because:

Charles Lyell is best known for his:

Edmund Halley suggested that a cause of the catastrophe known in the Bible as "Noah's Flood" had been:

Describe uniformitarianism. What did the uniformitarianists say about time and the age of the earth? Why was the uniformitarian view of time important to those who studied the human past?

William Smith is best known for his:

Explain the phrase,"The present is the key to the past."

Chipped stone objects that looked as though they had been made by people were thought by some seventeenth-century scholars to be:

Based on their interpretation of the Old Testament of the Bible, European thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries commonly believed that the world was:

What climatic conditions characterized the Younger Dryas?

Define anthropology. What do anthropologists do? What are the different subfields of anthropology?

The subfield within the discipline of anthropology that focuses on living groups of human beings is called:

In the Reverend John Ray's natural philosophy:

The fossil record shows that under the workings of evolution, the majority of species that have ever existed:

When Darwin first published his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection:

For most European thinkers in the nineteenth century, cultural evolution was synonymous with:

In the evolution of plants and/or animals through time:

Explain James Hutton's argument that the uniformitarian perspective actually reflected the genius of God's creation.

In his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin:

The story of biological and cultural evolution is written not in words but in things such as:

What was Pilfershire? What does the Pilfershire site show us about the way in which the past endures in the present?