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Homo erectus: East African; larger cranial capacity; modern body shape and weight Anatomically modern humans (AMHs) Paleolithic: stone-tool-making techniques that evolved out of the Oldowan tradition and lasted until about 15,000 years ago; has three divisions: Lower, Middle, and Upper Lower - associated with Homo erectus Middle - associated with archaic Homoe sapiens including Neandertals of western Europe and the Middle East Upper - associated with anatomically modern humans Acheulean: the main Lower Paleolithic tool making tradition used by Homo erectus; involved chipping the core bilaterally and symmetrically to created a teardrop-shaped hand ax Archaic Homo sapiens: earliest members of our species Neandertal Pleistocene: the epoch of early human life Glacials: ice ages Interglacials: long warm periods between the major glacials Mousterian: Neandertal technology, a Middle Paleolithic tradition Cro-Magnon: one of the two groups which Homo erectus split into; ancestral to AMHs, who first reached western Europe Herto: anatomically modern skulls with long, broad mid faces, tall, narrow nasal bones, etc. Denisovans: a hominin group, distant cousins to the Neandertals Behavioral modernity: relying on symbolic thought, elaborating cultural creativity, and as a result becoming fully human in behavior as well as in anatomy

Blade tools: hammered off a prepared core; part of Upper Paleolithic tradition The Clovis tradition: a sophisticated stone technology based on a point that was fastened to the end of a hunting spear...