ANTH 2050 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stone Tool, Cultural System, Collective Behavior
Document Summary
Inventions and design improvements result in dozens of minor alterations in the ways people live: the term process is used in archaeology to refer to mechanisms by which cultures change a. Internal constraints: ethnic diversity, gender roles, knowledge, beliefs, values, and other culturally conditioned habits all of them different in every culture. Beginnings part 1: the great ice age (pleistocene epoch, during the oligocene epoch, some 35 mya, the first signs of glacial cooling appeared with the formation of a belt of pack ice around. Homo ergaster, homo erectus, and homo sapiens (1. 9mya-40,000ya: pleistocene background, unpredictable climatic change began about 2. 5 mya and intensified in the. 100,000 years, the last occurring 18,000ya at the end of the ice age: middle pleistocene ended with another intense glaciation (the. Longer dependence on mother: constricted pelvis reduces amount of brain growth before birth, adapted to live in hot, arid environments, nearly hairless xi.
