ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Oxygen-18, Prepared-Core Technique, Lewis Binford
Document Summary
After 200kya the hominin lineage dies away. Substantially larger brain size in hominin lineage. Produces shallower fracture that allows you to take thin and long flakes. East africa 1. 8 mya to 1. 5 mya. Till quite recently never appeared in asia. Enigma in terms of social structure and adaptation. Clearly creature with larger brain size than any preceding member of lineage. Also capable of producing stone tools of sophistication that have never been produced before. First species in the hominin lineage to spread out of africa. 4 mya to 2 mya was a radiation event - increase of diversity species. Dispersal event is the spread of a single species geographically. Sengiran 1. 8 mya appear fossils of homo erectus. Very strange, almost immediately after their appearance in africa. Former soviet republic of georgia, dmanisi 1. 8 mya. Probably some kind of innovation in technology. Chazan predicts that all sites should have acheulian technology which shows new cognitive capacity.
