ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kebara Cave, Microblade Technology, Sea Level Rise

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: David Maxwell

Document Summary

Large pleistocene herds (which provided food clothing,& even shelter) start to disappear. Cooperative hunting was less productive (better suited to hunting herds) Resources like fish plentiful & accessible around newly created lakes,marches,& rivers. People created new technologies and strategies for exploiting these resources. Mesolithic in europe - mesolithic in most of europe starts at close of pleistocene. Roughly 11,000 years ago (follows the upper paleolithic magdalenian period) to 5,000 years ago. Permanent north ward movements of seasonal ranges of large migratory species like reindeer. At least 35 mammalian genera went extinct at the end of pleistocene. Several species of giant sloths up to 20 feet. People less mobile, less access to lithic resources. Ground stone - appearance of ground stone technology. The fertile crescent -areas of meiterranean climate characterized by: Rain provide enough precipitation to support vegetation ranging from woodlands to open park woodland.