ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Soybean, Mohenjo-Daro, Eurocentrism
27 Jan 2013
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Eastern and southern africa: genetics also suggest 200,000ya. Either through out of africa ii (recent african origin) model or multiregional hypothesis. By 50,000ya great explosion of artefact types and evidence for abstract thought that expresses cultural creativity: modern human behaviour, upper palaeolithic revolution or, gradualism. Complex artefacts only appear at 40 to 50kya. Based on a genetic mutation or biological reorganization of the brain in amhs at this time. Some claim it is access to shellfish and omega fatty acids. Systematic use of pigment, jewelry for self-ornamentation (non-utilitarian objects): works of art, game playing. Tend to be placed in caves with little evidence for habitation. In africa therianthropes, men with animal bodies and vice versa. Therianthrope: man with a springback head and hooves, western cape south africa. Earliest undisputed burial with grave goods is an amhs at qafzeh, israel at 90,000ya.
