Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Mousterian, Sewing Needle
18 Jul 2012
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As the skeleton can be structured based on need, so can technologies. Wood: what conditions favour different activities, stone the most effective for hunting. Rougher edges create more damage and bleeding. Overkill to be used on smaller game: earliest stone tips don"t appear until mousterian times in the old. Nature of tool kits: diversity: number of functional tool types. Some have very few, some have hundreds: subsistants. Tools sued to directly procure food from the environment. Number of them in a society directly related to risk . Probability of resource failure or failure to procure resource. E. g. hunting have higher risk , can fail. Greater diversity of tools away form the equator. Fewer food resources because there is a greater risk of failure to get food. Way to make it more likely to be successful is dependent on tools. Tools for single tasks are better than multipurpose tools. Better at specific tasks, more likely to be successful: manufacturing/maintenance.
