ANTH 102 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Blood Pressures, Maternal Death, Maternal Health
Document Summary
The origins of tool use: tool use probably quite ancient, apes use tools. Flakes, hammer stones, cores (what you strike flakes off of) Complex foraging strategies in humans: food resources. Hunted food (very high failure rate, most difficult source) Promotes long juvenile period to learn skills: division of labor. Food sharing: chimpanzees: mothers share with infants, meat sharing. Large prey shared with other members of group. Food sharing: humans: food sharing and division of labor in humans. Middle-aged men and postmenopausal women = producers. Extractive foraging and hunting require intelligence and learning: large brain, long juvenile period, increased longevity, paternal investment/involvement, reduced dimorphism. Complex foraging in oldowan toolmakers: mode 1 stone tool technology. Digging sticks: swartkrans, south africa, bone tools. Evidence for meat eating: concentrations of butchered bones and tools, bovid concentrations outnumber all others, taphonomy study of what happens to bone after death. Domestic lives of oldowan toolmakers: home bases.
