ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Oldowan, Levallois Technique
49
ANT100Y1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
49 documents
Document Summary
Cultural chronology: lower paleolithic 2. 5 mya to 300 kya. H. habilis (oldowan); h. erectus (acheulian: middle paleolithic 300 kya to 40,000 ya. Neanderthals (mousterian: upper paleolithic 40,000 ya 14,000 ya. Early tools use: the oldowan: earliest (?) Beginning of the lower paleolithic period: simple tools; east africa (olduvai gorge), ca. Coincides with the emergence of h. habilis: consists of large pebble choppers with flakes removed at one end. Flakes could have been used for a variety of tasks. Homo erectuc/ergaster: transition to more advanced hominin forms, i. e. , h. erectus and h. ergaster ca. 1. 9 mya: first to use fire ca. 1. 5 mya, swartkrans (south africa: first to leave africa. Adapted to a number of environments, e. g. europe; se africa by 1. 8 mya. The acheulian tradition: oldowan technology gives way to acheulian by 1. 5 mya; lasts until ca. 60,000 bp: africa, western europe and sw asia, choppers, flake tools, cleavers and hand axes.
