ARCH 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Chauvet Cave, Blombos Cave, Entoptic Phenomenon
25 Feb 2017
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Upper paleolithic: 10,000-45,000 bp (last period of the old stone age, behavioural and anatomical modernity, cultural creativity and complex symbolic thought. 5 periods of the upper paleolithic: ch telperronian (~40,000 34,000 bp, aurignacian (~45,000 - 29,000 bp, gravettian (~29,000 22,000 bp, solutrean (~22,000 18,000 bp, madgelenian (~17,000 11,000 bp) Traits of the cro magnon population: dates from 36,000 years ago, high, broad forehead, narrow nasal opening, prominent chin. Multiregional hypothesis: the hypothesis that modern humans originated from homo erectus to homo. Sapiens throughout the inhabited world: humans evolved from adaptation and gene flow, fossil evidence supports these theories, suggests interbreeding. Co-existence and cultural continuity: neanderthals and anatomically modern humans co-existed before their (neanderthals) disappearance from the fossil record at ~28,000 ya, no significant evidence for behavioural differences between middle and upper. Paleolithic before cultural fluorescence: high rate of gene flow among ancient human populations. Period of overlap between the neanderthals and homo sapiens: aurignacian.
