ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Oldowan, Jakarta, Olduvai Gorge
8 Oct 2020
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How to recognize stone tools: material brought from far away, consistent patterns of flaking, broken cobbles or flaked stones near butchery sites, animal bones with cut marks from stone. Meaning of stone tools: humans different because they make more elaborate tools, belief that stone tools define humanity, but chimps also produce and use tools: Origin of tool use: the oldest known stone tools date to 2. 5 mya, found in the hadar region, ethiopia, the mojor types of tools are sharp-edged flakes and cores, including choppers. What are tools good for: many things, butchering, clothing, cutting, processing plant fibers, etc, require mental abilities: coordination, planning, visualization. Were early hominins hunters: early views held that australopithecines were brutal hunters, archaeologists began to question this view in the 1970s, difficult to prove archaeologically whether early hominins were hunters or scavengers, evidence from some sites.
