ANT201H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neanderthal, Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis
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Hard to research b/c similar to oldowan. Formal flake tools: produced flake modified further. Acheulian hand axe: shaped core, symmetrical. Directly descended from acheulian: increased refinement: Discoid core technique: resource conservation, increased diversity: Blade technology: pre-shaped core (lavallois, indirect percussion / punch technique. Intermediate object called a punch : blade: specialized flake. Microlithic technology: small scale blade technology, used in composite tools ex: harpoons, sickles, increased diversity: Formal diversity: more than 130 tool types, composite tools, tools for making tools (ex: burin for bone, bone tools, spear thrower or atlatl, 2 in 1 tools. Bipedal + knuckle walking; feet diff. from hands. Complete skeleton (australopithecus afrensis: lucy; gracile, first evidence of bipedalism in australopithecines, fossilized footprints; in laetoli. Biolgical trends: influenced by the shift in mode of locomotion from quadrupedalism to bipedalism: problematic, no studies, no dates, no tools. 1: most defining hominin feature not brain size (that comes later)
