ANTA01H3 Lecture 9: ANTA01 Lecture 9.docx
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Stone age y paleolithic (old stonge age: lower, middle, upper) y mesolithic (middle stone age) y neolithic (new stone age) Characteristics of the upper paleolithic y more refined stone tools especially blades. Increased rate of change with respect to techonolgical industries: oldowan and achuleian were predominant, millions of years, blade: flake that is a tleast two times as long than it is wide. earliest blade tools were recent discoveries come from the baringo basin, in. Date to between 509 000 530,000 years ago. so they could not have been the only people making tools. africans were making them for longer periods of time. gravettian (27, 000 to 21, 0000) y smaller blades and edenticulate knivecs y denticulate tol y note the small pointed projection y therer were replacement tools. If something breask you can add another portion onto it y little flakes wiould be taken out to leave teeth like portions to make a seratted knife.
