ANTH 1220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Spear-Thrower, Bering Strait, Cave Painting

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1220
• Professor: Ellen R.Judd

Document Summary

Abundant art, religion, complex technology, specialization appears, complex social organizations . First clear evidence of art = cognitive leap (no change in fossil record) : 2 types: cave art (sw europe) and art mobilier (everywhere) Bone tools appear (awls, needles), atlatl (spear thrower) . Subsistence hunting, gathering, fishing appears : first evidence: 90,000 ya south africa - 60,000 ya . Hunting specialization of species, herd species form. Huts built of wood and mammoth bone, internal hearth, round floor . Isolated huts across from stream, fence, dirt/wood, baked clay, finger prints . Shaman carefully preserved, distortion of left side of face . Island hopping, 80 km water to cross, sites from 30 tya (migrated 40 tya) . Lake mungo (c-14 dating), devil"s lair (west australia) . 20 tya modern humans through out old world . Beringia (continental shelf) 2000 km wide (north-south) from siberia (80-35 . Tya and 29-11 tya: covered by tundra environment, marshes/grasslands (now bering.