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Homo
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The genus of bipeds that appeared 2.5 million years
ago, characterized by increased brain size compared to earlier bipeds. The genus is divided into various species based on features such as brain size, skull shape, and cultural capabilities. |
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Oldowan tool tradition
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The first stone tool industry, beginning between 2.5 and 2.6 million years ago.
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percussion method
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A technique of stone tool manufacture
performed by striking the raw material with a hammerstone or by striking raw material against a stone anvil to remove flakes. |
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Lower Paleolithic
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The first part of the Old Stone Age beginning
with the earliest Oldowan tools spanning from about 200,000 or 250,000 to 2.6 million years ago. |
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Homo habilis
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“Handy man.” The first fossil members of the
genus Homo appearing 2.5 million years ago, with larger brains and smaller faces than australopithecine |
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gender
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The cultural elaborations and meanings assigned to
the biological differentiation between the sexes. |
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marrow
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The tissue inside of long bones where blood cells are
produced. |
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tertiary scavenger
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In a food chain, the third animal group (second to scavenge) to obtain meat from a kill made by a predator.
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hypoglossal canal
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The opening in the skull that accommodates
the tongue-controlling hypoglossal nerve. |
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archaic Homo sapiens
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A loosely defined group within the genus Homo that “lumpers” use for fossils with the combination
of large brain size and ancestral features on the skull. |
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Levalloisian technique
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Tool-making technique by which three or four long triangular flakes were detached from a specially
prepared core; developed by members of the genus Homo transitional from H. erectus to H. sapiens. |
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Neandertals
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A distinct group within the genus Homo inhabiting
Europe and southwestern Asia from approximately 30,000 to 125,000 years ago. |
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Middle Paleolithic
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The middle part of the Old Stone Age
characterized by the development of the Mousterian tradition of tool making and the earlier Levalloisian traditions. |
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Mousterian tradition
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The tool industry of the Neandertals and their contemporaries of Europe, southwestern Asia, and
northern Africa from 40,000 to 125,000 years ago. |