APY 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Blackwater Draw, Flake Tool, Clovis, New Mexico
10 Oct 2018
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Acheulian: pertains to a stone tool industry from the early and middle pleistocene, characterized by a large proportion of bifacial tools (flaked on both sides) Artifacts: objects or materials made or modified for use by hominins, usually tools made of stone or occasionally bone. Aurignacian: pertains to upper paleolithic stone tool industry in europe beginning at about. Chatelperronian: pertains to an upper paleolithic industry found in france or spain, containing blade tools and associated with neandertals. Chopper: a pebble tool with an irregular cutting edge formed through the removal of flakes from one side of a stone. chronometric dating, gives an estimate in actual number of years. Clade: a group of organisms sharing a common ancestor, group includes common ancestor and all descendants. Cline: genotypic and phenotypic variation was anthropologist c. loring brace"s observation that such variations, insofar as they are affected by natural selection, migration, or genetic drift, are distributed along geographic gradations.
