Chapter 13 - The First Dispersal Of The Genus Homo: Homo erectus And Contemporaries

Question 1

A grouping of organisms sharing a similar adaptive patterns; contrasts organisms in a useful way

Answer 1

Grade

Question 2

A projection of a bone in the back of the cranium where neck muscles attach; holds up the head

Answer 2

Nuchal Torus

Question 3

Stone tool industry from the early and middle pleistocene; characterized by a large proportion of bifacial tools (flaked on both sides).

Answer 3

Acheuli/ean

Question 4

Cenozoic epoch (10000 ya - 1.8 mya); ice age

Answer 4

Pleistocene

Question 5

Small ridge that runs front to back along the sagittal suture

Answer 5

Sagittal Keel