AR104 Lecture Notes - Fertile Crescent, Dimini, Franchthi Cave

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Number of sites increased and included open-air and cave locations. New tools appear in mid-paleolithic (more diversity of tools such as harpoons for hunting fish, and bone needles of sewing) Humans became familiar with seasonality of certain foods. Lived at sites for a short period of time. Moved around based on factors such as season, water, hunting, visibility, plants. Inhabited from 20 000 bce to 3000 bce. Seasonal visitor attracted by water source and shelter. Beginning of neolithic (c. 7000bce) > started producing food. Evidence shows that inhabitants hunted deer and smaller game, caught fish, gathered wild cereal, wild peas, beans and nuts. 12 000 bce > climate change, greece became warmer. 8000 bce > see presence of obsidian (glass like), used for making tools, good for surgery > comes from the island of melos (120km away from site, the cave) they travelled there by foot. They had contact with people outside their main land.

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