ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Middle Paleolithic, Aterian, Ochre
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Have cellphones changed our cognition: allows us to know more about the world, information at our ngertips. Compared to modern humans, neanderthals have an elongated skull. A lot of the traits e see in neanderthals are the result of divergent evolution. 2 populations evolved independently: one in europe and one in africa. Genetic data indicates that the separation of the neanderthal and modern human lineages goes back a long time. Francois bordes: looking at the stratigraphic pro le. Each di erent layer represents a typologically distinct industry. He argued that this is evidence for di erent ethic groups of neanderthals. He thought that the neanderthals spoke di erent languages, similar to modern ethic groups. Lewis binford: used factor analysis instead of cumulative graphs. Argued that cumulative assemblages represented di erent activity that occurred on di erent sites. There were di erent site functions that were all part of the same system.
