ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Levallois Technique, Tendon, Mousterian
6 Aug 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Africa: middle stone age when found in africa: early amhs. Only a few of the tools are made from the core (unlike the previous stone industry) A technique for producing the same size and shape of flake over and over again. Archaeologists (in the 1960s) recreated various techniques in a lab; determined that the easiest technique was the one that was used (occams razor) Found a site that had the levallois flake and all of the original bits and flakes that had been discarded. (2) cutting a notch in the handle. Amhs evolve throughout old world (in different places) all at the same time from the pre-existing archaic groups that existed in those regions. Extensive gene flow: out of africa model. Migration (reaching the middle east first and then slowly to other regions) Outcompete previous archaic groups (causing them to go extinct)
