ANTH 101 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I Oldowan Tools II Louis Leakey III Paleolithic IV Cranial Capacity V Homo Habilis VI Homo Erectus VII Archaic Homo Sapiens Outline of Current Lecture I Upper Paleolithic II Homo Sapiens Sapiens III Biological vs Cultural IV Global Expansion V Sahul VI New World VII Neolithic VIII Hunting and Gathering IX Domestication Current Lecture Upper Paleolithic o Old stone Cro Magnon 30 000 BC Homo Sapiens Sapiens o Tool Diversity Atlatl Aztec spear throwers These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Nets things were melting sea levels were rising lakes were rising less of worlds water was tied up in ice and more of the world was in water form More water sources to explore Harpoon spear with a string on it part of it is removable point will stay in animal Cultural vs Biological Adaptation o Humans have not really changed structurally o Biological long process o Cultural fast process Requires certain amount of brain power Must go through a lot of biological before you can rely on cultural You learn to do things with the biology you already have then you pass on what you learn to do and they pass it on and so on Global Expansion o Came from Africa and into Europe 60k Sahul Not Sahel o Refers to new guinea and islands around it Polynesia Melanesia and Australia o Used boat as transportation 20k New World o Type of ethnocentric term o North central and south America and Caribbean islands o Walked across ice connected parts of Asia to North America Neolithic o New stone 11 000 BP China 10 000 BP o Fertile Crescent different ecological zones plains lived in area where the banks were overflowed with nutrients the land between the rivers Mesopotamia s animals would come down from the hills hooves dig up dirt o Israel o Jordan o Syria o Turkey o Iraq o Iran 8 000 BP S E Asia 7 700 BP New World Subsistence how you get your food Hunting Gathering o Gather wild plant foods successful 100 of time o succeed 1 out of 4 times o No vegetarians o Domestication Horticulture small production of plant foods Pastoralism people live primarily on herds of animals Transhumance o Stationary Slash and Burn Swidden o Slash down big things then burn it burned out stumps and ash then you make a hole and drop new seeds Herd Animals o Sheep goats cattle horses yaks llamas alpacas camels reindeer
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