ANT 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Archaic Humans, Stone Tool, Hand Axe

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Making the handaxe- very simple: step 1: roughing out, step 2: shaping, edge straightening. Making stone tools can be rich sources of hypotheses about archaeological stone tools: (cid:271)ut doi(cid:374)g so does (cid:374)ot (cid:373)ake o(cid:374)e"s h(cid:455)potheses (cid:373)ore likel(cid:455) to be correct, hypotheses have to be tested with different evidence. Logistical mobility: non-human primates carry stone tools <1 km, do not modify them, humans habitually carry stone and other tool >1 km, modify them in proportion to the distance transported. Evolutionary perspective: apes: occasional tool users, humans: obligatory tool users, home erectus = habitual tool user, tools carried used intermittently. Conclusion: paleoa(cid:374)thropolog(cid:455) (cid:374)eeds a (cid:374)e(cid:449) approa(cid:272)h to i(cid:374)(cid:448)estigati(cid:374)g sto(cid:374)e tools" role i(cid:374) human evolution, traditional narrative approach, construct a story from archaeological evidence.

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