HIST 3410 Lecture Notes - Colonisation Of Africa, Australopithecine, Bipedalism
1 Dec 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
September 23 2013 hist 3490 pre- colonial africa. Non- academic local understanding of earliest human history. Available sources beyond written documents now allow for reconstruction of a long history for africa. Closest genetic relative of man, gorillas and chimps found only in africa. Dna has shown that the oldest dna traces have been in africa. Basis of reconstruction: fossil & toll specimens are examined: biological, how they can manipulate their environment equals their physical biological ability to do so and thus changes in such things results in development. From the australopithecines to the homo species: the homo species: emerged from the gracile australophethicus which were much more primitive than modern humans and still resembled the australopithecines. The hand axe culture, appearing 1. 5 million years ago in east central africa. Variation in toll types began to occur to meet different needs.
