HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paleolithic, Homo Habilis, San People
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Hominids (found almost 5 million years ago) Fossilized footprints found in tanzania from 3. 5 million years ago bp (before the present) Australopithecus afarensis lucy - 3. 2 million years bp. 200-150 k years np homo sapiens. Written records separated prehistoric and historic eras. Indirect source through modern peoples- people who use roughly the same tech as prehistoric peoples. Prehistoric people had a lot of leisure time b/c of the small amount of time that gathering and foraging takes. No known society that is completely isolated. E. g: french jesuits writing about algonquian and iroquoian peoples in 17th century canada. Objects that are durable/ near permanent are the ones that survive. Humans outside of africa carry around 4% of neanderthal dna. Homo sapiens mixed with neanderthals and denisovans. Cannot use urban communities because there were no urban communities in prehistoric times. Three age system of stone, bronze, iron. Paleolithic: old stone age- about 2,000,000 b. c. e to about 10,000 b. c. e.
