ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Later Stone Age, Archaic Humans, Upper Paleolithic
Document Summary
Modern human origins: humankind achieved modern anatomy 195,000 ya, speciation event in africa, beginning to appear that something happened to early homo sapiens about 100,000- Upper paleolithic (40,000-8,000 ya: aurignacian tool industry, blade, highly standardized blade, chip blades off prepared core, indirect percussion (punch technique, pressure flaking, press (not strike) flakes off core with bone, antler, or wood punch, solutrean laurel leaf blades. Classic european upper paleolithic cultural periods: aurignacian, 40,000-27,000 ya, perigordian/gravettian, 27,000-21,000 ya, solutrean, 21,000-16,500 ya, megdalenian, 16,500-11,000 ya. European upper paleolithic (35,000-10,000 ya: constructed shelter, long distance trade. Increased efficiency in cooking & heat: hearths, fuel, clothing, bone needles. 1st artistic traditions: cave art, entopic images, ornamentation, sculpture, engravings, grave goods. Cave art meaning: sympathetic hunting magic hypothesis, ritualistic, to ensure success of the hunt. Venus figurines: perigordian period, gravettian, 27,000-21,000 ya, fertility theme, wide spread distribution in europe.
