ANT200Y1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Year, South Africa, Homo Erectus
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Complex tools, such as handaxes and cleavers. Examining cognitive processes of making stone tools. How was fire used during this time period: middle paleolithic (200,000-40,000 ya) How are the neanderthals related to homo sapiens? (cognitive life, social relations, behaviours burial, etc. : origin of modern humans (200,000-40,000 ya) Origin of all living humans is surprisingly recent. Populations of early modern humans developed navahoe technology and behaviours, such as a pebble from south africa which is one of the earliest forms of artwork) Plastered skulls (faces of human remains covered by masks, pre-pottery) Cosmology (humans place in the world: spread of middle eastern system into europe and the consequential transformation of ideas (different in europe from middle east, mesoamerica & north america. Human interactions changing: north africa, new guinea, andes, china, development of social complexity: Inequality rooted in history: emergence of large urban societies, progressive societies, societies with inequality, complexity within the state.
