ANT101H5 Chapter 9-10: Chapter 9 - 10 Notes
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Modern humans belong to species of homo sapiens. Middle pleistocence (800,000 120,000 years ago: hominins that differ from h eectus/ergaster yet did not have all the traits of modern humans. Levalloisan technique: tool making technique by which three or four long triangular flakes were detached from a specially prepared core. Another breakthrough was hafting: affixing of small stone bifaces and flakes in handles of wood - to make and improve spears and knives. These new composite tools involved three components: assembly of a handle or shaft, stone insert, binding materials. Another development in africa, was the increasing use of yellow and red pigments of iron oxide: signal rise in ritual activity like presaged burial of the dead. First appearance is early as 800,000 years ago. Neandertals are more closely related to one another than to modern humans: analyzed mitochondria dna, studies using mitochondria dna indicate maternal dna from. Neandertals and modern humans began to diver around 500,000 years ago www. notesolution. com.
