ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Conchoidal Fracture, Paleolithic, Homo Habilis
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{paleolithic old stone age} dates from 2. 6million years ago to. Olorgaesaille is a hunting site in africa **double check the location. Lithic technology lithic means rock or stone. Lithic technology refers to breaking rock or stone in a controlled manner. Removing flakes from cores with hammer in a controlled manner using the principle of conchoidal fracture. ** during a conchoidal fracture, breaking in certain ways is very predictable. You can predict the nature of what you break. The oldowan peblle chopper explains and infers the homo habilis understood the idea behind and the concept of conchoidal fracture . **technology after 2 million years meant that: there was increased refinement (better technology), increased diversity. Increased refinement makes reference to how over time our ancesstors were able to make more shapes from the surface of a rock or just having more access to the surface of a rock. Increaed diversity: developed tools were crearted going from the oldowan to the.
