Ch 9 Early Hominins Flashcards
Aridification
Becoming increasingly arid or dry as related to the climate of the environment
Aridity hypothesis
The hypothesis that long-term aridification and expansion of Savannah biomes were drivers in diversification in early hominid evolution
Assemblage
A collection demonstrating a pattern often pertaining to a site or region
Bipedalism
The locomotor ability to walk on two legs
Brecia
Hard calcerous, sedimentary rock
Chronospecies
Species that are said to evolve into another species in a linear fashion overtime
Clade
A group of species or taxa with shared common ancestors
Cladistic
The field of grouping organisms into those was shared ancestry
Context
As pertaining to Paleo anthropology this term or first the place were an artifact or fossil is found
Cores
The Remains of a rock that has been flaked or knapped
Derived traits
Newly of all traits that differ from those scene in the ancestor
Early Stone Age
The earliest described archaeological. In which we start seeing stone tool technology.
East African rift system
This term is often used to refer to a rift valley, expanding from Malawi to Ethiopia. This active geological structure is responsible for much of the visibility of the Paleo anthropological record in east Africa.
Encephalization
Expansion of the brain
Extent
Currently living not extinct
Fallback foods
Foods that may not be preferred by an animal, but that are essential for survival and times of stress or scarcity
Fauna
The animals of a particular region habitat or geological period
Faunal assemblages
Collections of fossils of the animals found at a site
Faunal turnover
The rate at which species go extinct for our replaced with new species
Flake
The piece knocked off a stone core during the manufacturer of a tool, which may be used as a stone tool
Foliverous
Foliage eating
Forenum Magnum
The large hole at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord enters the school
Forenum Magnum
The large hole at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord enters the skull
Fossil
The remains for impression of an organism from the past
Frugivorous
Fruit eating
Generalist
A species that can thrive in a wide variety of habitats and can have a veried diet