ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Stone Tool, Upper Paleolithic, Stone Age
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The study of past human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material culture. Preservation in the archaeological record: organics: particularly susceptible to deterioration, bones, wood, and textiles. 2 major time periods: paleolithic (old stone age, upper (youngest): 40 ka-10 ka, middle: 300 ka-40 ka. Lower (oldest): 3. 3 ma-. 00 ka: neolithic: starts 10 ka. Raw material: material that artifact, stone tool is made out of. Hammerstones and antler billets: things used to hit and shape to remove material of stone tool. In 2015, researchers at lomekwi-3, a site in west turkana (kenya) found stone artifacts dating to 3. 3 ma: found flakes, cores, hammer stones, difficult to distinguish from naturally occurring stones, produced using bipolar technique. Oldowan and mobility: raw materials moved by early hominins 3-5 km from their geological sources, carrying = planning depth beyond that of non-human apes. Who made the acheulean: linked with homo erectus, only species to remain in africa after 1. 4 ma.
