Archaeology Final

cultural evolution neoevolutionism
cultural ecology
"multilinear" evolution

moving anthropology away from a more particularist approach and developing a more social-scientific direction.

a style of predominantly flint tools

made by Neanderthals and date from between 300,000 BP and 30,000 BP

Levallois technique or another prepared-core technique

name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with prehistoric hominins during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of Asia and Europe

dominant technology for the vast majority of human history

distinctive oval and pear-shaped handaxes

a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans may have used for engraving or for carving wood or bone

Upper Palaeolithic

the scarred nucleus resulting from the detachment of one or more flakes from a lump of source material or tool stone

a category of clay and a type of ceramic distinguished primarily by its firing and maturation temperature (from about 1200°C to 1315 °C)

dense, impermeable and hard enough to resist scratching by a steel point, differs from porcelain because it is more opaque

a common ceramic material, which is used extensively for pottery tableware and decorative objects

one of the oldest materials used in pottery

refers to those practices most closely related to subsistence