ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Bouri Formation, Oldowan, Stone Tool
3 Jun 2012
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Humans have a predominantly technological rather than a biological adaptation. Humans have long-term pair-bonds between males and females. Food is shared within the group, particularly within bonded pairs (and offsprings) Males play a significant role in the upbringing of offspring. Owen lovejoy argues those traits appear early in the hominin line and that they"re not linked to technology. These behavioural traits evolved as a single interrelated complex somewhat later and were triggered by the combined development of technology and hunting. Raymond dart popularized the idea of early hominins as killer apes. Early hominins lived in small groups of less than 25 individuals. Sexual division of labour in which females gathered vegetables and males hunted. They were nomadic but territorial and live in short term home-base camps. The biological and cultural evolution of both homo habilis and homo erectus was driven by technology and the intellectual demands of a hunting adaptation.
