BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Olduvai Gorge, Taphonomy, Oldowan
5 Apr 2013
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Chapter 12: oldowan toolmakers/origin of human life history. These things must be processed before food can be eaten: hunted foods come from things that run away, and thus must be. Complex foraging shapes human life story caught or trapped. May also need to be extracted or processed before consumption. 60% humans depend on hard-to-learn skills to acquire food contemporary foraging peoples depend on extracted and hunted foods to a much greater extent than chimpanzees do unlike other predators, humans must learn a very diverse set of hunting skills. Blurton and jones (both from ucla) discovered digging up deeply buried. 1 usually, men take primary responsibility for hunting large game, and women take primary responsibility for extractive foraging division of labour makes sense on two grounds: hard-to-learn techniques reward specialization. Domestic lives of oldowan toolmakers momentarily left unguarded, or patient enough to follow herds and take advantage of natural mortality. Most bone marks were gnawed by nonhominin carnivores.
