BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homo Erectus, Acheulean, Mousterian
8 Jul 2015
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Language, tool use, fire control (and then fire starting) are all intertwined in redefining the human niche during the first 190,000 years or our existence (more or less! Culture: the distinctive ideas, values, customs, social behaviours, or ways of life. Evidence: tools, human bones, human bones relative to other non-human bones, structures (you added: art, literature, artifacts, oral tradition all of which are totally correct but cover a more modern era) Recipe: invention of new behaviour, consistency among performers, permanence in performers, spatial transmission, temporal transmission. Simply just a fractured rock to create a sharper edge. Acheulean tools: 1. 7 mya, first discovered in france but extends as far as kenya. They are called hand axes and were used for butchering meat, digging in soil, skinning game, scraping, cutting. Made mostly of flint to get sharp edge. It isn"t just our culture that has adapted to tool use. Our brains love looking at tools being use (there is increased brain activity).
