Important Shit From Notes Test 2 Flashcards
(16 cards)
What is the kingdom, phylum, class, and order of humans?
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primate
Characteristics of vertebrates
Must have internal spine, bilateral symmetry (left and right side are similar) same basic skeletal design (arms legs / fins etc)
Mammal characteristics
(Most) viviparity- give birth to live animals
Females possess mammary glands which feed offspring
2 sets of teeth, baby & adult
Limbs tucked under body (not side like crocodile)
Primate characteristics
Opposable thumbs
Nails instead of claws
Fire ward facing eyes (stereoscopic)
Hominid characheristics
Absence of tails
Difference in skeletal structure/ dentition
Who was the first homo that’s believed to be able to speak?
H. Erectus
3 age system
Stone Age (palaeolithic/ Neolithic) Bronze Age (mostly copped &stone) Iron Age: mostly iron
Homo habilis
First took maker
Speech abilities questioned
680cc
Oldowan took tradition
Oldest tool tradition
2.5 mya
Made by “percussion flaking” (one stone hit by another)
Homo erectus
First hominin to leave Africa
Started “acheulian” tool tradition
Evidence for spoken language
Acheulian tool tradition
Homo erectus
Tools twice the size of oldowan
Niamdertals
Communication
Mousterian tool tradition
Had tools for different tasks
Signs of culture (burials for the dead etc)
Mousterian tool tradition
Neandertals
More flakes than hand axes
Tools for different tasks
Amhs characteristics
Domed cranium (avg cc 1350) More gracile
Upper paliolithic tool traditions
Chatelporronian Aurignacian Gravettian SOLUTREAN magdalenian
SOLUTREAN tool tradition
Upper Paleolithic
Focus on blades (flakes that are twice as long as they are wide)
Used indirect percussion
