ANTHRO 100 Lecture 3: (Lecture 3) Anthropology 100 – Section 2 with Professor Bunn
19 Oct 2016
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Anthropology 100 section 2 with professor bunn. Early stone tools: conchoidal fracture, cores (e. g. , choppers) & flakes, the oldowan & its impact. History of research: louis and mary leakey. Key archaeological sites: flk, flkn6, dk. Tools (< 30%) % debitage, or waste product (70-90%) *east africa. Cores as tools for m. leakey: mostly (~50%) choppers: big, hand-held tools used for chopping things (side, ends, two-edged, pointed, chisel-edged), other shapes: discoids, polyhedrons, heavy-duty scrapers, spheroids. Flakes (and cores) as tools for early homo. Likely impact of the oldowan: an australopithecine diet. Mostly plant-based, plus small animals: the advantages of stone tools. Ol tupai oldoway olduvai: wild sisal plant (maasai) Beds are numbered, with bed i at base. Tuffs are numbered by bed, then alphabetically; e. g. , tuff ia tuff if. Sires are labeled alphabetically and by level: korongo = gully in kiswahili, flk = frida leakey korongo. Z. boisei a. or paranthropus boisei. 1. 0 mya: bed iv, bed iii.
