ARCH 201 Lecture Notes - Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Blombos Cave
15 Nov 2012
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Cognitive beliefs: arch is study of people and their stuff, more to people than making and using things - we should be able to study this as well, realm of cognition, beliefs, symbolism can be explored. Analogy and ancient cognition: analogy - inference by comparison - familiar with one thing, another similar, must have other similarities like function, how far back can you push this, do those stones have same function, perspective! Those stones are completely different, even in size: reasonable when dealing with people with cog ability similar to us now, anatomically, humans 150000 years, roughly. Other predators take prey there, habilis scavenged it, why we found stone tools: interpretation of homo habilis as scavenger, not hunter. Probably couldn"t build home base as we know them. Fictional, not ritual behaviour: but so many look intentional, we think they wondered: what happens next, no habilis burials, maybe erectus.
