ANT100Y1 Lecture 3: Archaeology-Lecture 3-Lower and Middle Paleolithic Lifeways Nov 6 2008
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First discovered by louis and mary leakey in bed i at olduvai gorge, tanzania, in 1960. Increased in cranial capacity: 600-700 cc: increased cranial capacity/decreased prognathism) Change in shape in pelvis (shorter, broader illium) Lecture 3 - lower and middle paleolithic lifeways. O thought to correlate with capacity to make stone tools, better exploit landscape. O bipedal, but retained ability to climb trees. O similar to chimpanzees, but not like us. O we see with homo habilis, for the first time, evidence of learned behaviour in the form of: human technology- the oldowan: beginning of the lower paleolithic period. O simple tools; east africa (olduvai gorge), ca. O notable for large pebble choppers with flakes removed at one end. O oldowan tools found in associated with faunal remains at olduvai gorge (dk1) O transition to more advanced hominin forms, ex: homo erectus ca. O transition coincides, roughly with the start of the pleistocene.
