ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chauvet Cave, Blombos Cave, Mousterian
Document Summary
Upper paleolithic: started around 50 000 years ago. More refined stone tools, especially blades: twice as long as wide maximizes the cutting edge. Mass-production: oldest blade tools from the baringo basin, kenya between 509 000 and 543 000 year old, chatelperronian tool industry (european . ) Added blades and bone tool to mousterian: aurignacian tool industry. ~40 000 to 27 000 years ago. Associated with early anatomically modern humans in europe. Even more blade tools and bone use than in the chatelperronian. Suggested that the neandartals and anatomically modern humans exchanged ideas: gravettian (27 000 to 21 000 years ago) Denticulate tool was like the serrated knife first time replacing parts: solutrean (21 000 18000 years ago) Very finely bifacilly flaked and very thin. These are very hard to make; the maker needed a lot of control: magdalenian tools (17000 to 11000 years ago)
