"The Human Species" - Intro to Biological Anthropology Ch.15
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- Anatomically modern Homo Sapiens
- The modern form of the human species, which dates back 130,000 years.
- Blade
- A stone tool characteristic of the Upper Paleolithic, defined as being at least twice as long as it is wide.
- Burin
- A stone tool with a sharp edge that is used to cut and engrave bone.
- African Replacement Model
- The hypothesis that modern humans evolved as a new species in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago and then spread throughout the Old World, replacing preexisting archaic human populations.
- Multiregional Evolution Model
- The hypothesis that modern humans evolved throughout the Old World as a single species after the first dispersion of Homo Erectus out of Africa.
- Assimilation model
- The hypothesis that modern human anatomy arose first in Africa as a change within a species and then spread through gene flow to populations outside of Africa. The gene pool of the African archaic populations was thus assimilated into an expanding population of modern humans out of Africa.
- Regional Continuity
- The appearance of similar traits within a geographical region that remain over a long period of time.
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Upper Paleolithic
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A general term used to collectively refer to the stone tool technologies of anatomically modern Homo Sapiens.
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Lower Paleolithic
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A general term used to collectively refer to the stone tool technologies of Homo Habilis / Homo Rudolfensis and Homo Erectus.
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Middle Paleolithic
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A general term used to collectively refer to the stone tool technologies of archaic humans.
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