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Anth Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mousterian/Mode 3 | small flakes and big flake, big flake is the tool |
| Chatelperronian/Mode 4 | many blade from one core, work one side |
| Aurignacian/Mode 5 | blade, work both sides, for clothing |
| Leakey replacement | multiple migrations from Africa, 90% human DNA from second wave |
| mtDNA | only from mother, not under evolutionary pressure |
| Molecular Clock | use rates of random mutation to estimate amount of time since last common ancestors |
| Dragon Man | Denisovan, known from pinky and tooth, able to obtain DNA |
| Iwo Eleru Skull | 13 kya, cross of H. sapiens and H. heidelbergensis? |
| HLA-A Genes | immune response, from Neanderthals and Denisovans |
| Problem with Species | reproduction result in fertile offspring, able to reproduce with Neanderthal |
| African Multiregionalism | interbreeding and coexistence in hominin populations in Africa |
| Jebel Irhoud | North Africa, 315 kya, show H. sapiens broad range |
| Hobbit | nickname for H. floresiensis, short with big feet |
| Clovis | 13 kya, small flakes, fluting |
| Solutrean | dense, less selective of material |
| Monte Verde | S. America, 14 kya, structure, foot prints, mastadon hunting |
| Buttermilk Creek | Texas, 13-15 kya, spear point |
| White Sands | N. Mexico, 22 kya, foot prints |
| Serra da Capivara | Brazil, 25 kya, cave art |
| Blombos Cave | S. Africa, 77 kya, ochre, shell beads, awls, needles |
| Olorgesailie | Kenya, 770 kya, H. erectus, red ochre |
| Mtoto Burial | Kenya, 78 kya, young child, material under head and covering body |
| Sungir | Russia, 25 kya, beads, animal figurine |
| Dolni Vestonice | Czech Rep, 27 kya, cuck burial |
| Mal'ta | Siberia, 15-18 kya, bone structure for large group |
| Sulawesi | Indonesia, 44 kya, oldest evidence of art, story telling |
| Lion Man | Germany, 40 kya |
| Venus of Tan-Tan | Morocco, 300-500 kya, carved or natural? |
| Parietal | "belong to wall," cave art |
| Mobiliary | portable |
| Berekhat Ram | Israel, 280-250 kya, engraved |
| Anthropology | study of human |
| Biological | physical, fossils, nutrition |
| Archaeology | objects to research past, historical and modern |
| Linguistic | connect language and culture |
| Cultural | living groups |
| Genetic Drift | change in gene frequency from random chance, influence on smaller population |
| Bottom-Up Morality | morality evolved like other traits |
| Kin Selection | more likely to help individuals of closer relation, save sibling before cousin |
| Reciprocal Altruism | help if receive something in return |
| Laetoli Footprints | Au. afarensis, 3.6 mya, walk in wet ash |
| Hominid | related to all great apes |
| Hominin | human ancestors |
| Oldowan/Mode 1 | chopper and flake |
| Acheulean/Mode 2 | biface cleaver and hand axe, symmetrical, aesthetic sense? |
| Dmanisi Skulls | Georgia, h. erectus, intraspecies variation |
| Intraspecies | within same species, lumper |
| Interspecies | between different, splitter |
| Koobi Fora | Kenya 1.5 mya, hotter burn |
| Wonderwerk | S. Africa, 1 mya, far in cave |
| Gesher Benot Ya'aqov | Israel, 800 kya, repeat burn, burned bone |
| Beeches Pit | UK, 415 kya, hearth, tool debris |
| Cooking Hypothesis | build social bonds around fire, cooking fuel brain growth, kill bacteria |
| Sahul | land mass between Australia and mainland |
| Sunda | connect Java to mainland |