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Cultural Advances

Cultural Advances. Anthropology. Culture. Human Culture : Any learned behaviour , including technology. Paleolithic Era. The cultures of pre-historic humans are known mostly through stone tools and other imperishable artifacts

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Cultural Advances

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  1. Cultural Advances Anthropology

  2. Culture • Human Culture: Any learned behaviour, including technology

  3. Paleolithic Era • The cultures of pre-historic humans are known mostly through stone tools and other imperishable artifacts • Early tools (simplest technologies) were thought to be from Paleolithic (“Old Stone Age”)

  4. Paleolithic Era • Lower: 2.5mya-100,000ya • Middle: 250,000ya – 30,000ya • Upper: 50,000ya – 10,000ya • These are approximations and obviously overlap

  5. Lower Paleolithic • Acheulian tool tradition used and made until roughly 100,00ya when Neanderthals and others achieved a major leap forward in tool making with the development of the Mousterian tool tradition

  6. Mid-Paleolithic technologies • Changes in tool making (100,00ya) • Sophistication with dealing with environment (especially with obtaining food) • Local groups had differences and therefore variations of tools began • Most variation was through the “Mousterian” tool tradition

  7. Mid - Paleo • This technology was part of their successful adaptation to hunting and gathering, especially in cooler climates like Europe during the last ice age (75,000ya)

  8. Mousterian (mid-Paleo) • Reduction of large core tools (hand axes) • Specialized Flake Tools became more common • Levallois Flake

  9. Levallois Flake

  10. Uses • Think of possible uses for the Levallois Flake over the Acheulian tradition… • Animal Skin prep** (why most important?) • Butchering animals • Cutting small pieces of wood

  11. This was the first time that stone tips were affixed to spears • This provided more effective killing • Neanderthals were pioneers which is another argument against the idea that they were brutish, apelike, dull-witted creatures

  12. Neanderthal Culture • Cooler climates require protection • Evidence of clothing manufacturing? • Stone Awls were found in sites belonging to Neanderthals • Wear on incisor teeth similar to Inuit women

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