ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Openair, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus
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From the earliest stone tools (around 2. 5 mya) to the origin of the modern homo sapiens. The earliest traces of human behaviour can be divided into three timeframes: Lower palaeolithic (3. 3) 2. 6 mya 200 kya. Stone tools: the earliest indications of material culture. Culture the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning (bates and. Plog, 1976) culture is the primary avenue through which humans adapt to their environment. One of the major behavioural traits which sets humans apart from other animals is the variety and frequency of our manufacture and use of tools and our dependence on them. Tools are made of stone, wood, bone, antler, skin, bark, leaves, etc. , but stone tools are by far the most likely to be preserved from all periods, since they are resistant to destruction.
