ANTH 161 Final Exam Questions AND Correct Answers
Define atlatl - ✔✔Spear thrower. Throws spear faster and
more accurately. Increases distance between predator and
prey
Define Biface
Define Uniface - ✔✔Biface: stone tools flaked on both sides
Uniface: stone tools only flaked on one side
Define biostratigraphy - ✔✔the branch of stratigraphy
concerned with fossils and their use in dating rock formations
Define blades - ✔✔Flakes at least twice as long as they are
wide. Could be retouched into knives, hide scrapers, drills, and
spear tips
Define Brunhes-Matuyama reversal - ✔✔when the Earth's
polarity periodically reverses so that south becomes north and
vice versa
, Define competitive exclusion - ✔✔proposition that two
species which compete for the same limited resource cannot
coexist at constant population values
Define hafting - ✔✔attaching a piece of stone to a stick to
make a spear or projectile
Define postorbital constriction - ✔✔the narrowing of the
cranium just behind the eye sockets found in most non-human
primates and early hominins
Define pressure flaking - ✔✔a sharp, strong tool (often an
antler) is used to apply pressure to the edge to remove flakes
and put finishing touches on tools
Define prognathism - ✔✔Bulging of the lower jaw
Define retouching - ✔✔chipping off little flakes to change the
shape of an edge or make it stronger
Define atlatl - ✔✔Spear thrower. Throws spear faster and
more accurately. Increases distance between predator and
prey
Define Biface
Define Uniface - ✔✔Biface: stone tools flaked on both sides
Uniface: stone tools only flaked on one side
Define biostratigraphy - ✔✔the branch of stratigraphy
concerned with fossils and their use in dating rock formations
Define blades - ✔✔Flakes at least twice as long as they are
wide. Could be retouched into knives, hide scrapers, drills, and
spear tips
Define Brunhes-Matuyama reversal - ✔✔when the Earth's
polarity periodically reverses so that south becomes north and
vice versa
, Define competitive exclusion - ✔✔proposition that two
species which compete for the same limited resource cannot
coexist at constant population values
Define hafting - ✔✔attaching a piece of stone to a stick to
make a spear or projectile
Define postorbital constriction - ✔✔the narrowing of the
cranium just behind the eye sockets found in most non-human
primates and early hominins
Define pressure flaking - ✔✔a sharp, strong tool (often an
antler) is used to apply pressure to the edge to remove flakes
and put finishing touches on tools
Define prognathism - ✔✔Bulging of the lower jaw
Define retouching - ✔✔chipping off little flakes to change the
shape of an edge or make it stronger
