ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Plants And Animals, List Of Domesticated Animals, Epipaleolithic
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Mesolithic / epi-paleolithic / archaic lifestyles: continue small-scale hunter-gatherer lifestyles. It is a hunting camp in a forested, temperate seasonal environment in the uk. Focusing on hunting (deer, elk, large wild animals) Mostly stay here in the spring and summer (do hunting and live) Using stone and axes to cut down trees, build track-ways through marshes, etc. Wood and bone arrows with microliths, knives and spearpoints, antler spearpoints, etc. They had domesticated dogs (who might be helping them hunt) Still small groups moving around the landscape, but they are in a rich enough environment that they can stay put (b) archaic n. am: great basin/west plains. Making very efficient use of their landscape. If we didn"t have great preservation, what we"d get is medium-smallish projectile points and some grinding stones which they were using for seeds (mostly) Since we have this dry vegetation, they are using a lot of plant resources (fiber baskets, snares)
