ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mercedes Lackey, Middle Paleolithic, Stone Tool
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Lecture 10: origin and spread of modern humans. Art (symbolic expression) is rare or absent, although red ochre may have been used to colour skin, clothes, etc. , and some shells appear to have been pierced and coloured with red ochre possibly to be worn as ornaments. Burials: some definite burials in europe and near east, some special attitude to death, possibly belief in afterlife, grave goods are questionable resemble other bones and tools in caves, usually flexed. Other ritual: possibility of cannibalism in some cases; significance unclear , several injured individuals healed = possible altruism , language unclear must have been relatively developed. Topic 5: origin and spread of modern humans. Upper palaeolithic (50-10 kya) (various tool tradition) Middle palaeolithic (200-40 kya) (mousterian tool tradition) Interaction of modern humans with neanderthals: not completely clear, but genetic studies indicate not much interbreeding (1-4% neanderthal.
