ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Homo Habilis, Prognathism, Lomekwi

• School: UCSC
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1
• Professor: Reti

Document Summary

Widest part of skull now at the back of the skull: not across face like australopithecus. Tool users, (cid:498)handy man(cid:499: 2. 6 1. 5 mya. Oldowan stone tool industry: ethiopia, kenya, tanzania. Chopper: big bulky stone tools with one sharp edge: no evidence that it is used for chopping, actually used the chopper to make small flakes, chopper is actually trash, flakes used for small knives, don"t know. Possibiliy homo habilis but not the only one. Access to unique resources (plants that can"t be eaten without cutting) Didn"t eat meat often because it was too much work to find meat every day and fight carnivores for the meat. Sexual division of labor: women gather more calories than men do, women raise children. Sharing of food resources: expectation of return. Forethought and planning: going out and looking for opportunities, making stone tools for anticipation of meat. Chimps use sticks to fish for termites.