ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Venus Figurines, Stone Tool, Grave Goods
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Anatomically, modern homo sapiens originated in a single population in east or south africa, around 160-200 kya. Leave africa by 90 kya, spread around the world. Earliest modern homo sapiens are not immediately associated with the full range of. They are still associated with middle palaeolithic stone tool types. New aspects of material culture accumulate gradually (e. g. elaborate bone tools, indication of art), at least in part because evidence does not preserve. Not completely clear, but genetic studies indicate not much interbreeding (1-4% In many areas, modern humans probably displaced neanderthals and other pre- Last neanderthals went extinct around 35 kya, within about 5 kya of spread of modern humans to europe. Once homo sapiens has been around for millennia, and most aspects of modern human behaviour have been developed. Begins around 50 kya in africa, 40 kya in southwest. Blades are finely crafted, parallel-sided flakes, average 10 cm long.
