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Anthro Final Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Laetoli | site where australopithecus afarensis footprints were found |
| Hadar | site where Lucy was found |
| Oldivai | shows different stages of time (canyon-like). important because of its well documented sequences of geological, paleontological, archaeological, and hominid remains |
| Lake Turkana | site where the black skull and homo erectus skeletons were found |
| Skhul | site where modern homo sapiens and neanderthals were both found suggesting they were around at the same time |
| La Chapelle aux saints | site where extremely robust neanderthal was found |
| Cro-Magnon | site where the best-known sample of western European homo sapiens is |
| Qafzeh | site that yielded the remains of 30 individuals of modern morphology |
| Island of Flores | site in Indonesia where erectus-like remains were found called homo floresiensis |
| Complete Replacement Theory | proposes that anatomically modern populations arose in Africa about 200 kya dispersed from Africa, replacing premodern populations in Asia and Europe |
| Partial Replacement Model | proposes that modern humans expanded out of Africa, but there was interbreeding among the modern humans and regional premodern populations |
| Regional Continuity Model | proposes that premodern forms throughout the Old World evolved in modern humans |