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Bipedalism

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being able to walk on 2 legs; this is an important characteristic of humans today and may show where we have descended from

Levallois Toolmaking

way of making tools; a stone worker would break off small flakes from an original stone and then hammered a bigger flake into a cone or cylidner

Oldowan Toolmaking

way of toolmaking that let hominins expand what they ate; it involved splitting a stone in half which made sharp edges

a H Sapien group that originally settled in Australia; they were before the European settlers by about 60,000-50,000 years

when stone tools began making; also called Old Stone Age; it began 2.5 million years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago

humans descended from them; they are ancestors of humans who split from chimpanzees

Acheulian Toolmaking

H. erectus made this; it involved breaking off a piece of rock on both sides and making a triangle axe; it had a handle too