ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lascaux, Fish Hook, Later Stone Age
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2 primary migrations out of africa (cid:862)big ba(cid:374)g(cid:863) of cultural innovation. Later stone age (lsa) in africa 50,000 to 45,000 ya. Cultural revolutio(cid:374) at 50,000 due to (cid:862)lag ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) Upper paleolithic in eurasia 40,000 ya. Aurigancian tool industry: blade, highly standardized blades, chip blades off prepared core. Indirect percussion (punch technique: pressure flaking, press (not strike) flakes off core with bone , antler, or wood punch. Indirect percussion is upper paleolithic of modern humans, direct percussion is the oldwan technique used by early homo. Aurignacian (40,000 27,000 ya: blade. Perigordian / gravettian (27,000 21,000 ya: venus figurine. Solutrean (21,000 16,500 ya: laural leif. Increase in hunting tool technology, eg: bow and arrow. Burin (tool used to shape bone or wood into other tools, kind of like a chisel) Increased efficiency in cooking and heat: hearths, fuel. Cave art: entoptic images (geometric shapes and lines)
