ANTH 1010H Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Frontal Bone, Hammerstone, Uniface
3 Sep 2013
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Anthropology chapter 6: rise of the genus homo. The tool industry characterized by simple, usually unifacial core and flake tools. A particular style or tradition of making stone tools. The raw material source (a river cobble or a large flake) from which flakes are removed. The stone fragment struck from a core, thought to have been the primary tools of the oldowan. A stone used for striking cores to produce flakes or bones to expose marrow. An archaeological site at which there is evidence that early hominids were obtaining the raw material to make stone tools. A place where there is archaeological evidence that early hominids were obtaining the raw material to make stone tools. Archaeological term for an area to which early hominids may have brought tools and carcasses and around which their activities were centered. Thickened ridge of bone above the eye orbits of the skull; a brow ridge.
