ANT-2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Australopithecine, Ice Age, Oldowan
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Represented by the greatest amount of fossils and the most extremely studied of. The most significant discovery was lucy the australopithecines. 3. 5 feet tall (estimated), 65 pounds (estimated) Still had an apelike skull with brow ridges and a large face. Skull teeth are a little more human-like. Lived side-by-side some of the later australopithecines. Associated with the remains of h. habilis. The production of these tools show a knowledge of the characteristics of different rocks, knowledge of breakage patterns, planning abilities, and hand-eye coordination. Tool making is an invented, learned, and taught behavior = culture. Subsistence: even though h. habilis made tools, there is no evidence that hunting was the dominant mode of subsistence, the majority of animal bones associated with h. habilis are the least meaty portions of the animal. Indicates scavenging: oldowan tools were used to remove meat from the bones and extract marrow from the inside of the bones.
