ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Archaeological Site, Law Of Superposition, Muscogee

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Cottier

Document Summary

Archaeology: searchg for understanding in the archaeological record. In order to interpret what we find, we need to know about a wide range of aspects of a given culture. Upper, middle, lower: crudest stone tools in lower: identified bt numerous factors like tools, settlements, economy, levels of socio-political organization, etc. Homo habilis: oldowan tools: made the first tools, a rock that is flaked into a sharp point, first found in olduvai gorge. Homo erectus: acheulian tools: first hominid to leave africa, from africa, europe, asia, lived for about . 5m-1m years, tools were hand axes, first hominid with fire. Also, they built huts from animal bones and animal skin. Homo sapiens neandertalensis: mousterian tools: tools first found in france, more advanced that previous tools, used for cutting and drilling. Homo sapiens sapiens: many tools, cave art, etc. Cave art could have been educational or religious: most of their tools are blade tools (twice as long as it is wide)