Homo habilis and Cultural Origins Key Terms

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Chapter 7

• Homo habilis and Cultural OriginsKey Terms

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• Homo habilis Earliest representative of the
  genus Homo lived between 2.4 and 1.6 million
  years ago. Characterized by expansion and
  reorganization of the brain, compared to
  Australopithecus.
• percussion methodA technique of stone tool
  manufacture performed by striking the raw
  material with a hammerstone or by striking raw
  material against a stone anvil to remove flakes.

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• Lower PaleolithicThe first part of the Old Stone
  Age its beginning is marked by the appearance
  2.6 million years ago of Oldowan tools.
• marrow The tissue inside of long bones where
  blood cells are produced.

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• Oldowan tool tradition The earliest identifiable
  stone tools.
• genderThe elaborations and meanings assigned by
  cultures to the biological differentiation of the
  sexes.

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• tertiary scavenger In a food chain, the third
  animal group (second to scavenge) to obtain meat
  from a kill made by a predator.