archeology exam 2

earliest evidence of cannibalism

gran dolina, spain

earliest hominin site outside of africa

Dminisi, Georgia

Famous object at Berekat Ram

venus figurine

strongest hypothesis for the movius line

the bamboo handaxe hypothesis

H. Erectus made it into europe…

1 million years ago

Why was h. erectus tall and long limbed with sturdy legs?

because they were persistence hunters

which species first used fire

Homo Erectus

18th century researcher determined to find fossils in SE Asia

Eugene Dubois

Eugene Dubois found ___ in SE Asia

homo erectus

“Pit of Bones”

Sima de los Huesos

Achulean handaxe has symmetry in…

plain view and profile view

Homo Erectus/ergaster has been found in

everywhere but australia

Zhoukoudian, China

had evidence for fire

Not an advantage for hominins using fire

defense against predators

hominins were prey for predators…

occasionally

Levallois Technology

a h. sapien technology for making blades using cores

venus figurines are

depictions of fertility and fecundy

parietal art

was usually wall art

Homo Sapiens made it into europe…

40,000 yrs ago

Important bone found at Kebara

hyoid bone

Neanderthals first evolved in

Europe

The greatest overlap and genetic mixing occurred in…

the Levant

Homo Sapiens in the upper paleolithic’s stone tools used mostly

levallois flakes

Neanderthals lived mostly as

small populations that didn’t travel very far

the “Flower child” was found at

Shanidar Cave in Iraq

South African Homo Sapiens subsistence…

Broad spectrum subsistence

Upper Paleolithic cave art featured

mostly animals, rarely humans

Neanderthals had wear on their front teeth because

they used them like a third hand

earliest h. sapien burial with grave offerings dates to

100,000 years ago (Qafzeh Cave)

First solid evidence of Ochre paint

Blombos Cave (100kya)

Neanderthals have a large nose aperture for

breathing in the cold

neanderthals went existict

30/40k years ago

klaises river mouth DIDNT have…

a bow and arrow

diagnostic tool for the solutrean culture

laurel leaf

“age of the reindeer”

magdelinean

current geological epoch

the holocene

neanderthal heartland

europe and western asia

Neanderthal Culture

mousterian

Bergman’s and Allen’s rules have to do with

cold adaptations

neanderthal bone breaks are similar to those of

rodeo riders

neanderthals used…

composite tools (they found the glue)

neanderthal cannibalism site

Krapina Cave, Croatia

evidence that neanderthals cared for each other…

healed bone breakages, living to old age

what allowed middle stone age south africans to make standardized projectile weapon tips?

pressure and heating (or hafting)

evidence for deep sea fishing

bone harpoons, deep sea animal bones, drew fish

which culture was the first to migrate into europe

aurignacian

which site had a lot of beads in the stone age burial

Sunghir

culture that made houses out of elephant bones

gravettian

which culture domesticated the dog

gravettian

prismatic blades

stone tools that are twice as long as they are wide

who made the hand prints at el castillo

women and adolescents

in order to make cave paintings deep in caves people used

stone lamps that they burned animal fat in

heat treating rock makes it

require less force to flake

where did neanderthals and homo sapiens interbreed

the levant/middle east