ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Atapuerca Mountains, Neanderthal, Homo Erectus
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New percussion techniques in the lower paleolithic. Soft hammer = hand axe increasing tool diversity. Acheulian hand axe function = used for scraping, cutting, warping wood, scraping shafts, and butchering animals formal flake tools, i. e. the acheulian cleaver. East asia look more like the olduwan tools. One hypothesis suggested is that in the new environments they take raw materials such as bamboo to make tools. Similar tools were made, such as for scraping and cutting. It was a very easy raw material to find. Made for some kind of hunting, 2 m long, the weight is more heavy at the front, making it easier for throwing. No carnivore tracks found at the site, therefore it was clearly the homo erectus that got to the a(cid:374)i(cid:373)al"s first. Back more than 1 mya, maybe 4 mya. Burned animals and tools fires occur naturally, therefore it is hard to say that the burnt tools and animals were a result of the homo.
