ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Radiocarbon Dating, Hand Axe, Henan Museum
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If you paint a landscape or do anything, you have to include some sort of liberation in the background. View of chinese prehistory in early days. Regionalist view: what"s real and what"s not, what"s the difference, split between eastern and western iroquoian groups split between yonge st. Henan institute of archaeology: nationalism in china, everything centers around china; also regional centric; this is seen everywhere but in. Henan provincial museum: superb places to go, really nice places that"s well funded. 18000 bp: 6-7 celsius colder than today, evergreen forests and mixed forests, challenges of resources. Standard view of upper palaeolithic: review slides of upper paleolithic. Shirataki locality: blades popping out of the ground (when prof went to visit in 1970s) Wedge shaped and boat shaped cores: sizes of footballs, take off large flake to create biface, some area so thin that it"s translucent, so sharp they can be better than surgical tools.
