ARCL-1006EL Lecture 13: Homo Ereectus and Neanderthals 13
16 Jun 2018
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ARCL 1006!
March 14, 2018!
Early Homo and Neanderthal!
ā¢Acheulean tools made by Homo Erectus !
ā¢Hand axe: big tool, ļ¬aked around entire perimeter and both sides!
ā¢Not like a regular axe, literally rock in hand!
ā¢Used for digging? cutting?!
ā¢Olorgesailie 750 thousand years ago-1mya!
ā¢Lots of hand axes found here likeā¦so many!
ā¢Movius Line- distribution of hand axes in the old World!
ā¢No distribution of hand axes in Asia!
ā¢Distribution of bamboo- apparently used in the same way that hand axes were used,
so they would decompose in time!
ā¢Kalambo Falls, Zambia!
ā¢Digging sticks? spears? !
ā¢Evidence for ļ¬re:!
ā¢Wonderwerk, South Africa- 1 mya!
ā¢Swartkrans, South Africa- 1-1.3 mya!
ā¢Gesher Benot Yaāaqov, Israel- 800 thousand years ago!
ā¢Kao Poh Nam, Thailand- 700 thousand years ago!
ā¢Slowly ļ¬nding ecidence- including cooking pots!
ā¢U of T- discovered Wonderwerk, but they want it to be 2 mya, not 1, in order to prove
cooking hypothesis !
ā¢Fire- somehow related to humans// hard to be sure that the association of a burned item,
is relating to a human because forest ļ¬res, lightning, etc !
ā¢Caves are a good way to assume human behaviour !
ā¢Big game eating!
ā¢Ambrona, Torralba, Spain- 400 thousand !
ā¢Schoninger, German- 400 thousand !
ā¢Pretty sure they are eating them, but are unsure if they are killing the animals !
ā¢Crossing open Water?!
ā¢Flores, indonesia!
ā¢Straight of Gibraltar!
ā¢Circa 800 thousand !
ā¢No direct evidence, but indirect evidence available !
ā¢New world monkeys somehow ended up in diļ¬erent places without boats !
