ARCH 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Soapstone, Westerwald, Hyoid Bone
25 Feb 2017
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Course
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Archaeology 1030
February 26th, 2013
Early Homo
• DNA Studies of Neanderthal: 2010 Results
• Middle Paleolithic And Mousterian Tool Tradition
o Middle Paleolithic is characterized by the Mousterian tradition
o Mousterian tools used by Neanderthals and Archaic Homo Sapiens
o 40,000 – 125,000 years ago
• Social Organization during the Middle Paleolithic
o Cared for injured and weak individuals
o La Chappelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal
• Burial Practices
o Neanderthal Burial Evidence
▪ Increasing evidence that Neanderthal did bury their dead
▪ Grave offerings limited to male burials
• Neanderthals and Language
o Hyoid bone found at the Kebara site in Israel
o Neanderthals had unquestioned ability to speak
Assignment
• Due: March 7th, 2013
• Bring camera, ruler, paper and pencil
• The Borden System
o Catalogue System
o HeCi-15
▪ Nain Area
• Group 1
o Soapstone lamp fragment
o Piece of carved and drilled antler
o Copper alloy button
• Group 2
o Piece of Ceramic, German Westerwald
o Pipe bowl with makers mark
o Gun flint for flint-lock rifle
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