Forerunners of humans after genetically splitting from the chimpanzees.
Broken forests with interspersed bush and grasslands.
Prehuman species of the genus Australopithecus that existed before those classed under the genus Homo.
Old Stone Age, 2.5 million-11,500 years ago.
In the Australian Dreamtime, the shaman constructs an imaginary reality of the lineage's origins and roots, going back to the time when the world was created and the creator devised all customs, rituals, and myths.
The original settlers of Australia, who arrived some 60,000-50,000 years before the arrival of European settlers at the end of the eighteenth century CE.
The first human characteristic of hominins, specifically, the ability to walk for short periods or distances on hind legs.
Landscape in which the topsoil unfreezes during the summer and supports dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens.
The hypothesis that the people who eventually colonized the Americas spent approximately 10,000 years stranded on the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), the now-submerged plain beneath the Bering Sea.
A technique which consisted of flaking a hard piece of rock (especially flint, chert, or obsidian) on both sides into a triangle-shaped hand axe, with cutting edges, a handheld side, and a point.
A stone technique where stone workers first shaped a hard rock into a cylinder or cone.
Early stone-carving technique, which consisted of splitting a stone into two, thereby producing sharp edges on both fragments. See also Acheulian and Levallois toolmaking.
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