ANT 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Sapiens Idaltu, Anatomically Modern Human, Homo Erectus
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Ant-202 fact sheet week 3 october 5-7, 2015. The upper paleolithic and the emergence of homo sapiens. Core: the objective piece (the piece that is struck) Hammerstone: the stone used to hammer the core. Debitage: flakes and waste pieces created in production of tools. Pebble tool: pebble from which two or three flakes were removed to make a tool. Oldowon tool: pebble tools like those found at olduvai gorge. Basal paleolithic: 3. 4-1. 8 mya period marked by oldowon tools and flakes. Out of africa: middle homo or homo erectus. Ant 202 -- fact sheet fall 2015 - p. 2. Classification of species: homo erectus is present in africa about. Homo ergaster is very very similar to homo erectus that appears in asia almost the same time (1. 8 mya). They are so similar we will refer to them all as homo erectus. Almost fully modern post-cranially (below the neck) indistinguishable from modern humans.
