ARCS2168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tephra, Feldspar, Olduvai Gorge
31 Jul 2018
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Archaeology of africa according to the human revolution model: middle palaeolithic: neanderthals, levallois technology, simple hunting/foraging strategies, upper palaeolithic: homo sapiens, blade technology, symbolism and art, complex strategies. Main arguments: human revolution, modern human behaviours >50ka, eurocentric bias. South africa important in evolution research: msa sites from >60,000 to 164,000bp document early recurrent evidence for symbolic behaviour, complex technology, and marine subsistence adaptations. Sea diets and environments important for human evolution: humans in australia from 65,000 years ago. Week 1: chronological frameworks, evolutionary processes and past environments: main early hominin bearing localities: africa (~4. 4-1. 8 mya, cenozoic era (~25mya-today) Focus on neogene period (miocene and pliocene epochs) and. Quaternary period (including pleistocene and holocene epochs: miocene contains most of human evolution. Stratigraphy: boundaries between strata = change in sedimentation regimes, due to environmental change, or due to human activity at archaeological sites.
