ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Laetoli, Oldowan, Acheulean
Document Summary
Introduction to archaeology (lecture #1) Changed material and scale of copy. Technology to transport material at a rapid pace. Left picture: from south africa. Hand- axe replica copied for 1. 5 million years (shared beliefs) Shift towards agricultural life (as indicated by the types of tools found at sites) Removal of skulls after death (apparent in the middle east) carving the front of the skull. Humans copying of archaeological components. Mechanism has to be static or can be changed. What you know cognitively and with your body = transmission of knowledge. Method and theory: world prehistory (archaeology learning about the human past, way that archaeology works in the contemporary world. Exhibiting (take what is known about the archaeological past and present it in a different form) Oldowan: 2. 5 1. 15 mya. Acheulian: 1. 7 million to 200,000 years ago. Homo erectus (first tools that were impressionable, evidence of fire) Middle paleolithic: 200,000 40,000 years ago. Origin of modern humans: 200,000 40,000 years ago.
