ANT201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Sapiens, Lithic Reduction, Upper Paleolithic
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Neanderthals 1st to purposefully bury their dead. African replacement - all modern form of homo came out of african and slowly replaced all other early forms of homo in the world ( everyone is from africa) Earliest stone tools in africal ( oldowan in 2. 5 mya) changed to acheulian in africa and europer and chopper chopping in asia. Acheulian to middle stone age in afria and musterian in europe , both middle stone age and mousterian both contributed to upper paleolithic. Indirect percussion/ punch technique ( hit chisel with a rock) Sapiens started using other resources fro tools ( bone) Blade technology on a small scale ( 1 cm often) These blades are often hafted on onto a spear. Sickle - # of microliths hafted onto antler. 1 lb of chert( flint) oldowan 7. 62cm cutting edge acheulian 30 cm. In comparison to: formale tool types label something as a projectile point (darts, spears)
