ANTH 2050 Chapter : The Origins Of Culture And Early Technologies
Document Summary
Lecture outline: first recognizable tool industry: the oldowan, meaning of stone tools and ways of life of early hominins, the pleistocene and the great ice age, homo erectus and its radiation outside africa. Cultural chronology: lower paleolithic = 2. 5 mya 200 kya, middle paleolithic = 200 40 kya, upper paleolithic = 40 12 kya, paleolithic = old stone age (alternate spelling palaeolithic ) 9/5/12: 2. 5-1. 6 mya, earliest member of genus homo, brain size ca. 650 cc: related to gracile australopithecines, lots of variability. Issues in early hominin meat acquisition: emerging role of hominins within sub-saharan plio-pleistocene carnivores, timing to access to carcasses, carnivores with which hominins interacted, nature and intensity of interactions, role of technology and social behavior in interactions. The origin of tool use: archaeological evidence: oldest known stone tools date to 2. 5 mya, found in hadar region, ethiopia, almost 3000 stone tools have been recovered, major types: sharp-edged flakes and cores, including choppers.
