ANTH 2050 : Exam 2 Key Terms
World Archeology Key Terms
Exam 2
1. Aurignacian=the earliest upper paleolithic period. aurignacian industries have been found on
sites across europe and middle east
2. Lascaux site (France)= france, elaborate art found here
3. Chauvet site (France)= the earliest known painted cave, dated 38,000-33,000 years ago in france
4. Cosquer site (France)=contains several dozen works painted and engraved between 27,000 and
19,000 years ago
5. Herto site (Ethiopia)= a site in Ethiopia where the earliest known fossil of a modern humans was
discovered, dating between 160,000 and 154,000 years ago
6. Homo neanderthalensis= closest related species
7. Homo sapiens= species name of modern humans
8. modern humans=homo sapiens include all living humans
9. Solutrean=proposal that the origin of the Clovis culture was in migration of groups from the
Solutrean culture of s. France
10. Upper Paleolithic=the archeological period that saw the earliest occupation of europe by
modern humans
11. Venus figurines=portable art objects that are found with the Gravettian industry and the depict
the female body
12. cave art=famous site: lascaux
13. Beringia=a land bridge that connected Asian and North American during periods of low sea level
14. big game hunting= paleo-indian period—to Paleolithic period. Used clovis and folsom
15. Clovis culture=period that many archaeologists view as the initial human occupation of the
Americas (13,500 and 12,500)
16. Clovis=n. america including mexico and s. america; bifacial fluting and large blades
17. Clovis first model=clovis culture to 13,500 and 12,500 years ago (first occupation of the
americas)
18. fluted projectile points=Clovis points are the characteristically-fluted projectile points associated
with the North American Clovis culture. They date to the Paleoindian period around 13,500
years ago. Clovis fluted points are named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where examples
were first found in 1929.
19. Folsom=bison antiques, folsom points--smaller extended flutes, animal drives
20. ice-free corridor=a potential migration route for populations expanding out of beringiam
running between cordilleran and laurentide ice sheets
21. Meadowcroft Rockshelter=a site in Pennsylvania where evidence was found supporting pre-
clovis occupation of the new world
22. Megafauna=species of large animals that became extinct in many ares of the world
23. Monte Verde=chile evidence of human occupation 15,000
24. pre-Clovis model=human occupation of the americans predates 13,500 years ago
25. Solutrean hypothesis=proposal that the clovis culture was in the migration of groups from the
solutrean culture of southern france
26. Younger Dryas= near glacial period. A theory of extinction of late plestocene megafauna
27. Lapita= culture or tradition was a prehistoric Pacific Ocean people from c. 1600 BCE to c. 500
BCE. Archaeologists believe that the Lapita is the ancestor of historic cultures in Polynesia,
Micronesia, and some coastal areas of Melanesia.
28. Lake Mungo=3 skeletons found by Jim Bowler
29. Sunda=
