ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Flake Tool, Lithic Reduction, Middle Paleolithic

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1

Document Summary

Middle palaeolithic 200 - 40 kya. Upper paleolithic 50 - 10 kya. Stone tools the earliest indications of material culture. One of the major behavioural traits which sets humans apart from other animals is the variety and frequency of our manufacture and use of tools, and our dependence on them. Culture is the primary avenue through which humans adapt to their environment. Tools are made of stone, wood, bone, antler, skin, bark, etc but stone tools are by far the most likely to be preserved from all periods, since they are resistant to destruction. Based on fracturing, not grinding or carving. When force is applied, a flake isdetached from the core. Area on the core from which flake was removed is the flake scar . Either the flake or the core is used to produce a tool ( core tool vs flake tool ) Platform the point of impact where the flake is detached from the core.