ANTH 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Australopithecine, Hand Axe, Chalcolithic
5 Aug 2020
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Culture is our non-biological means of adapting to and making sense of our physical and social environments. The ability to manipulate tools is related to bipedalism (meaning two feet) and complex brains. Language allows us to convey detailed and elaborate knowledge when passing on cultural practices. To examine origins of cultural behaviors must look at material evidence and biological indicators of culture. Paleolithic (prehistorical period when stone tools were made by humans) lower paleolithic 2. 5mya-150kya. Chalcolithic (7th-4th million bc): use of copper. Bronze age (3600-1200 bc): use of bronze hominids. Recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms and in some recent any of a family (hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals that includes: classifications the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan. A primate of a family (hominidae) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes.
