ANTHR-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Beringia, Portable Art, Rock Art
15 Jun 2020
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Behavioral modernity wasn"t associated with abrupt change. No single cognitive explosion that led to modern human mind. Gradual acquisition of typically modern human behaviors, starting in africa. By 60 ka: projectile technology, fishing, personal adornment, larger social networks, exchange networks, belief systems (?) Projectiles: more success, less risk, survivorship increases, competitive advantage. Evidence of fishing from katanda, drc (82-70 ka) Art after 40 ka in europe and africa. Rock art had different pigments and different instruments. Music: social and emotional information, flutes made from animal bones. Debate if neanderthals have musical traditions or not. Expanded subsistence base (more varied diet due to included use of aquatic resources) Modern human advantages: innovative, cognitive, and social. 20 ka group of humans migrated from asia to the americas through the bering strait land bridge. 15 ka modern humans occupied north and south america. 12 ka humans settle down and start to develop domestication of plants and farm animals.
