ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Swiss Army Knife, Acheulean, Hand Axe
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Requires more complex cognitive capabilities than oldowan. Advanced planning to arrive at that product, and ability to modify technique to achieve that goal. Less food is needed to get the same amount of nutrients. Important in cold and seasonal environments out of africa. May have been crucial to allow migrations to asia and europe. Allows the use of caves as shelters. Also important in the colonization of european and asian environments. May have facilitated the formation of social bonds. Small localized, fully oxidized, magnetically altered sediment patches at koobi. Varied environments, from tropical africa into more seasonal and colder regions in. H. erectus like hominins migrated out of africa very shortly after their first appearance in. Perhaps synchronic population, who took care of old and/or sick individuals. Homo erectus from java: mojokerto (1. 8) and sangiran (1. 65) Questions about provenance and dating; land bridge between java and mainland asia. Reduction in size of cheek teeth (similar to modern humans)
