HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chopping Tool, Stone Tool, Hand Axe
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Can the entire human past be considered history? (cid:862)early hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)ity(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)prehistory(cid:863) Hominids, fossilized foot print c. 3. 5 million y ago bp, australopithecus. Afa(cid:396)e(cid:374)sis (cid:862)lu(cid:272)y(cid:863) (cid:272). (cid:1007). (cid:1006) (cid:373)illio(cid:374) yea(cid:396)s b. p (cid:894)(cid:271)efo(cid:396)e p(cid:396)ese(cid:374)t(cid:895) c=circa=approx. Lucy fell out of a tree, bones, fracture patterns of bones. Used stone tools (olduvai stone chopping tool) 1. 8 million years ago. Chopping tool to cut meat and extract marrow, nutrient rich. Ancestor could follow large predators, then use their prey after they consumed it. Stone tools became more elaborate, olduvai hand axe (1. 4-1. 2 million years ago) Stone axe did not change in form, lasted so long. Ia(cid:374) mo(cid:396)ti(cid:373)e(cid:396). (cid:862)e(cid:448)e(cid:396)y e(cid:374)gage(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)ith the e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:396)elati(cid:374)g to a past event of state can be considered the conscious fulfilment of a historical initiative, a(cid:374)d thus ahisto(cid:396)i(cid:272)al a(cid:272)t. (cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1008)(cid:1010)(cid:1005)(cid:895) Often thought to divide prehistoric and historic eras is written records. Therefore a lot of cave art painted by women.
