ANTH-A 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bouri Formation, Louis Leakey, Silt
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Garbage from several different sites (east ethiopia) Beginnings of the stone age- world"s earliest archeological sites. Afarensis (3. 3 millions years old)- dikika is the site where she was found, in ethiopia, very dry erosional lands where you can find fossils because they are not covered with vegetation. Two bones were found on the dikika slope the first cut , cut marks discovered on the bone, tools. Trampling experiment, divergent trajectories, wind, etc. can all cause marks on bones. Tooth marks left behind by crocodiles to the ethiopian bones- jackson njau. The east african tool-maker: the two cut bones were alive during the time od au. Clay and silt beds found in fine grains with several big rocks- could be a rock for breaking something open. Early austalopithecines was potentially slicing bones, knowledge of how to break rocks to make sharp edges.
