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4 - Neandertals and Modern Humans Flashcards

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Mousterian Tool Tradition

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Le Moustier, France
Tools are generally smaller
Levallois technique
No evidence of long distance tools

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Levallois technique

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prepare cobble that is brittle and breaks in
percussion flaked to prepare core (make it tortoiseshell shaped)
Make a flake from the core D <– side view
Makes tools from flakes

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La (Lottle, Cottle) de St Brelade

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of the English cannal

Evidence of communal hunting, running mammoths off cliff

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Vindija Cave Sit

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Croatia, revealed evidence of heavy influence of meat in diet, stable isotope analysis of collagen (N15) same as carnivores

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El Salt

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Spain, coprolites (fossilized feces), oldest ever found

analyzed fats that showed evidence of plants in diet

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The Denisovans

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Denisova Cave, Southern Russia
DNA from finger bone was analyzed and identified as belonging to an archaic human group separate from Neandertals and modern humans
Geneticists have discovered Denisovan DNA in the modern human genome
About 5% of some populations in East Asia, esp Melenesia and Australian Aboriginals
Also tooth found
Very little of the skeleton represented so we do not know what they look like
Very cold, which helps preserve DNA

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Distinguishing characteristics of Homo sapiens

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1400 cc
Globular skull, vertical forehead
smaller eyebrows
smaller head (teeth, jaws, mid face)
lighter body structure, thiner/lighter bones, smaller muscle attachments
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Models explaining emergence of homo sapiens

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Multiregional
-suggests that modern humans evolved in various parts of the old world after homo erectus left africa
Replacement Model
-aka out of africa hypothesis
modern humans emerged in africa then spread out into other areas
-Neandertal ppopulations in Europe were replaced 30000-40000 ya
Supported by analysis of mDNA, fossil evidence

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OMO I

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Ethiopia
earliest modern human
200 000 ya

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Jebel Irhoud

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Morocco
250 000 ya
transitional, pre modern

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blade tools and replacement model

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appear very abruptly without evidence of evolving from acheulian tools, supports replacement model

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Border Cave

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south africa

70 000 - 80 000 BP (Before 1950)

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Herto

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160 000 ya

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Kiasies River Mouth

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120 000 ya

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Blambos Cave

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Incised ochre
77000 ya
South Africa

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Qafzeh / Skuhl

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Israel
120 000 ya
Represents first expansion of anatomically modern humans beyond Africa
Anatomically modern human in area are older than Neandertals (50-60 000 ya) from Europe

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Cro-Magnon

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Discovered from 1868 at Rock Shelter near Les Eyzies, France
30 000 ya
Skull bears pitting, evidence of fungal infection

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Upper Paleolithic in Europe

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period of new technologies and cultural practices
40 000 - 10 000 ya
Coincides with appearance of anatomically modern humans

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New tool technologies in the upper paleolithic

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indirect percussion 
-punch would be hit with hammer to break off consistently shaped blades
Pressure flaking 
-reshaping or sharpening tools
-used to finish the tool

Burin

  • cut, reshape, etc
  • make fishhooks, harpoons, and needles
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Aurignacian

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characterized by long thin blades

34 000 - 27 000 BO

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Gravettian

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gravette points

27000 - 21000 BO

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Soultrean

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characterized by heating of flint to make leaf-shaped (aka laurel leaf) blades
flourished in Spain and France
Extremely thin, up to 13 inches long

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Magdalenian

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relied heavily on antler and bone, also ivory
using wider variety of material
16 000 - 11 000 BO
Technology/tools made up of many different parts

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Atlatl

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spear thrwer @ 160 km per hour
developed in Europe 30 000 ya
Significant b/c it allows for distance hunting
allowed for more force to be put into throwing

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bow and arrow

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11 000 ya (maybe even 64 000 ya, arrow points have been found without bow or shaft)

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upper paleolithic and art

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explosion of artistic expression 40 000 ya

art, body decorating

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parietal art

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cave wall painting

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mobilitary art

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portable art (venus figurines and animal carvings)

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chauvet cave

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france
variety of art (geometric, hand stencils, animals, etc)
one of the earliest paintings, 32 000 ya
3 friends discovered it
dated charcol using AMS dating
torch marks also found, 26 000 ya
made during aurignacian
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el castillo cave

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spain
40 800 ya (when both Neandertals and modern humans were around)
oldest cave painting known today
dated using uranium series dating (thorium : uranium)
calcium carbonade over paintings formed when water dripped down cave wall
study showed that 24/30 handprints were female

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lascaux

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france, 1940, found by 18 year old man
17000 ya
depicts a lot of large animals, with some humans
painted using red and yellow ochre, maganese and charcol for black
had both spray paint and pencil type methods
oil lamp discovered (moss/juniper used as wick in deer ft)
caves have been closed because co2 can corrode paintings and encourage algae growth

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altamira

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spain
16 500 - 14 000 ya
a few that may be even 36 000 years old
closed to public in 20002

33
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venus figurines

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small sculptures
widespread through europe
large breasts abdomens, wide hipes, undefined facial features
wilendorf
-4 3/8 inches, stone, most famous
Laussel
-bas relief, limestone, holding horn with 13 lines could be lunar or fertility cycle
-traces of red ochre
-20 000 ya
Lespugue
-mammoth ivory tusk, 6 inches high, 26 000 yrs old
Brassempory
-head is 1 1/2 inches, defined facial features
-earliest representation of human face
Hohle Fels
-35 000 ya, 2/4 inches tall, mammoth ivory
-Oldest depiction of human form, probs worn as pendant
-Germany

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Animal figurines

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hohlenstein site

32 000 yrs old lion headed figurine, made from mammoth ivory, reconstructred from pieces, 28 cm tall

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Music

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hohle fels cave, germany
35 000 yrs old
bird bone flutes and ivory flutes

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sanguin site

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russia
28 000 yo
burial with many grave goods
1 singular older man, 2 young people together 12-13 yo male and female (thru DNA)
lots of beads, pendents, fox teeth ornaments, spears, ochre, carved disks
girl had misformed, bowed femurs (maternal diabetes?)

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dolni vestonice

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czech republic
3 burried: male 16/17 wood stuck through body, female 20 spine/femur/tooth deformed, male 17/18 head smashed
-may have been related (deformity in sinus cavity) but not through mother (mdna analysisvenus of dolni vestonice

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venus of Dolni vestonice

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earliest example of fired clay

39
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sahul

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land mass of “greater australia” includes australia proper, new guinea, tasmania

40
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sunda

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land mass of Java, sumatra, bali, borneo

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wallace trench

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under sea chasm between new guinea/australia and jave/borneo

wallace line – life is different on others sides of line

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occupation of australia

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largest water gaps would’ve been 80-100 km, average 20km
oldest evidence of australian anatomically modern humans is south east, Lake Mungo
based on dna, genetically divered 75 thousand ya

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pleistocene Megafauna

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the larger, now extinct herbivores like mastadon, bison antiqus, sabre tooth
extinction doesn’t coincide with major climate change
does coincide with arrival of humans
fungus associated with herbivore dung disappears/dramatically decreases 41 000 ya

44
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clovis

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13 500 ya

bifacially flaked points with flutes

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monte verde

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chile, 14 500 yrs old (carbon dating), peat bog, mastadon hide recovered, rectangular houses with planked floors, wide variety of plants in diet (unlike clovis associated with mainly large game hunting)

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meadowcroft rock shelter

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pennsylvania, footprint has been discovered

47
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Bering Land Bridge hypothesis

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~85 km between asia and north america
bering bridge ~ 1500 km wide
35000 - 11 000 ya
Beriginia

48
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when did ice sheets start to separate

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14 000 ya

49
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pacific costal route

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using watercraft to travel along beringia and pacific coast
no evidence of watercraft at this time in new world
side scan sonar to investigate

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north atlantic ice edge

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clovis tools bear resemblance to solutrean
generally not supported
-solutrean ended 500 yrs before clovis
-genetics doesn’t support

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Anzick site

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montana, only confirmed clovis burial
18 mth boy, 13000 yrs old
80% Aboriginal people directly related to the boy
related to populations in north east asia

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Yana RHS

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32 000 ya, rhinosorous horn site

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significant sites in new world

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swan point (alaska, 14 000 yrs ago)
Bluefish cave (yukon, 15 000 - 12 000 yrs ago)
debra l friedkin (texas, 15 500 yrs ago, oldest firmly dated)
Paisley 5 mile point caves (oregon 14300 yrs ago, dna from coprolite)
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folsom tools

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after clovis, flute goes further up than clovis, associated with now extinct, large bison

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skeletons in new world

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rare to find, ~2 dzen over 9000 years old

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kennewick man

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healed over projectile point in hipe, 9300 yrs old, lawsuit followed discovery
most resembles the ainu of Japan
ate marine mammals, drank water from alaska
stocky muscular, 5’7, five broken ribs and other injuries

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