ANTH 1210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Oldowan

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1210
• Professor: Haskel J.Greenfield

Document Summary

Stone tools used by homo habilis included lava cobbles, pebble choppers . Method of production percussion (hard hammer technique) . Flakes used to remove meat from bones . Cobbles and choppers used to break open bones to get at marrow and break open nuts and hard plant food . Cut marks overlay tooth marks = scavenging, not hunting. Site can find once hominids start breaking rocks . How do we go about getting our food? . Hunting of small game (analogy), scavenging of large game (archaeological evidence) sharing of meet (analogy) proportion of meat and plants in diet (archaeological evidence), gathering of plants. Modern h-g : non-arctic (80% plants 20% meat) Arctic (reversed, don"t cook meat = don"t lose vitamins and mineral) Stimulate social behavior, large group size, cooperative organization, weapons, tool making in general. Seasonal movement to where resources are located territorial, large .