ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Maya Script, Hunter-Gatherer
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3 papers per term: one every month (a little less, one page long, one figure. Visual communication is the future : draft in tutorial one week before due date, 1st: heirlooms. Objects have history and many cycles of history. Look at heirlooms because it makes us look like archaeologist. Assignment: find an heirloom in the house. Why does it have significance to society to life to you etc. Image of artifact: well chosen, well explained, hard. Laetoli: 3. 8 mya: first foot prints. Oldowan: 2. 5 mya: why did humans start making tool, difference between human tool use and chimpanzee tool use. Acheulian 1. 7 mya: homoerectus, how did they move out of the starting point in georgia, spread into europe and asia, elaborated stone tools, the adaptation and society. Middle paleolithic: 200 kya: neanderthals, cave use, fire, interbreeding between present day humans.
