ARCA1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ghost Population, Bipedalism, Linnaean Taxonomy
31 Jul 2018
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Both ancient greek and roman views saw tool use, fire making and verbal language as key features of humanity. Old strata exposed as blocks fall into the rift: europe and asia- caves mostly (provide best preservation, americas, australia and the pacific- focus in timing of colonisation. Archaeologist of the week: kamoya kimeu: native-born kenyan anthropologist, began working in the 50s with large numbers of american and english anthropologists. Analyse use wear on tools to infer use. Ancient hominin dna: neanderthals, denisovans (nuclear and mitochondrial dna) Animal dna: lice and loss of hair; lice and invention of clothing. Zooms (zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry: whole site analysis. Studying primates to give us ideas of behaviours between individuals and groups. Key site: lomekwi 3, kenya: discovered accidentally when stone tools were found, demonstrates: Other hominins made stone tools (not just homo) Study of humans covers the quaternary period (holocene epoch and pleistocene.
