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17 Cards in this Set
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artifacts
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materials made or modified by ancestors or modern humans
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australopithecus
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referring to diverse group of pliopleistocene african homins
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bipedal locomotion
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walking on two feet
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chronometric
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measure
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culture
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behavioral aspects of human adaptation
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large body hominds
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great apes gorillas orangutans chimpanzees
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faunal
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referring to animal remains
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habitual bipedalism
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bipedal locomotion a fromof locomotion
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mosiaic evolution
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evolution in one functional system varies in another
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multidisciplinary
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pertaining to research involving mutual contributions
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obligate bipedalism
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bipedalism as the only form of hominin terrestrial locomotion
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pilo-pleistocene
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pertaining ot the pilocene and first half of thepleistocene of 5-1 mya
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postcranial
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referring to all or part of the skeleton not including skull
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sagittal crest
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a ridge of bone that runs down the middle of the cranium like a shor mohawk
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sectorial
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pre molar functions as shearing surface
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sites
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location of discoveries
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thermoluminescence
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technique for dating certain archaeological materials that were heated in the past
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