ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Homo Sapiens, Social Complexity, Pseudoarchaeology
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What are the origins of bipedalism between 5 to 10 mya. It is biological and we are dependent on this type of motion. What are the origins of modern humans (homo sapiens) 200 kya. What are the origins of resource production dates to about 12kya. Know the dates that are covered in the chart for resource production. Social complexity explain it // about 8kya. Remember: social and cultural change is not darwinian. Themes /: material technology: increased refinement, diversity and specialization, modification of the environment: producing an increasingly artificial material world, remember : technology did not ensure human survival by itself, social. * social interactions: humans have always had families, communities and societies : social scale: the increasing complexity over time. In cooperative human social groups: ideational, communication: cooperative human social groups depend on effective and efficient communication there are two types of communication: discursive // language, spoken and eventually written. Non discursive communication that is not exactly conscious communication.
