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Oldowan
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the tool industry characterized by simple, usually unifacial core and flake tools
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tool industry
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a particular style or tradition of making stone tools
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core
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the raw material source ( a river cobble o a large flake) from which flakes are removed
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flake
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the stone fragment struck from a core, thought to have been the primary tool of the oldowan.
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hammerstone
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a stone used for striking cores to produce flakes or bones to expose marrow
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home base
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archaeological term for an area to which early hominids may have brought tools and carcasses and around which their activities were centered.
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supraorbital torus
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thickened ridge of bone above the eye orbits of the skull, a brow ridge.
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sagittal keel
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longitudinal ridge or thickening of bone on the sagittal suture not associated with any muscle attachment
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acheulean
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stone tool industry of the early and middle pleistocene characterized by the presence of bifacial hand axes and cleavers. this industry is made by a number of homo species including h. erectus and h. sapiens.
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early stone age (or lower paleolithic)
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the earliest stone tool industries including the oldowan and acheulean industries, colled the RSA in Africa and the lower paleolithic outside africa
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biface
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a stone that has been flaked on two faces or opposing sides forming cutting edge between the two flake scars.
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hand axe
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type of acheulean bifacial tool, usually teardrop-shaped, with a long cutting edge
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cleaver
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type of acheulean bifacial tool, usually oblong with a broad cutting edge on one edge
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occipital torus
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a thickened horizontal ridge of bone on the occipital bone at the rear of the cranium
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