HIST103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marche, Chauvet Cave, Cave Painting
24 Feb 2017
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Religious awakenings : language and cognition, pre-cataclysm era, post-cataclysm era. What gives you something to talk about (lightbulb going off) An idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person; the unit of cultural transmission and transmit ideas, symbols, and practices through writing, speech, gestures, or rituals. It is possible to think of them as analogous to genes because they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressure. 1 mya; one group started a slow migration. 700 kya; homo erectus, made it to flores, underwent dramatic change- dwarfism. Toba, intense cold volcanic winter, about 99% of the first wave of that great migration was killed or unable to pass genes on through procreation. 73 kya; climate resumed its normal course, early human ancestors survived, a small population in east africa and somewhere in oceana. 70 kya; colonizes entire planet, new technologies and hunting technologies. Migration coming out of africa- second great migration.
