ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oldowan, Tuff, Stone Tool
Document Summary
Early human behavior - tool use wood, bone, shell and stone tools. Later stone tools show the ability to produce bi-laterally symmetrical objects: m. kenoyer. Osteo-donto-keratic tools- unmodified bone, teeth and antler used as tools. Oldowan industry: choppers, bashed rock, heavy duty flake tools made on volcanic. Karari industry: pre-acheulian core tools- choppers, heavy duty scrapers and trimmed flakes; are foreign to the area they are found in and therefore hominids are suspected of bringing them in and flaking them. Most early sites are simply scatters of bone and stone tools with no evidence of structures. Some patterned arrangement of stones suggests the presence of huts or windbreaks at olorgesailie, kenya, melka kuntur , ethiopia, and terra. Patterned scatters of artifacts indicates general localities of human activity. Natural fires can account for most traces of fire at early sites, including burned bones at sites in south africa, and burned patches at olorgesailie, terra.
