Archeology Flashcards
What are the theories for how homo sapiens evolved?
Out of Africa model, multiple origin model
what species of human was discovered recently?
Homo bodoensis
What does the out of africa theory say?
50 000 y ago homo sapiens came from Africa
When did the first modern behaviour appear?
37 000 y ago
What other species was discovered in a cage and lived together with Neanderthals?
Denisovans
When were nasarius shells as beads first discovered?
100 000 -70 000 bp
What is the period without archeological data?
70 000-40 000 bp
Why is there nothing before 40 000 bp?
Maximal radiocarbon dating possible
Where were the beads before 70 000 discovered?
Africa
What does the human revolution theory state?
Human modern behaviour suddently appeared 37 000 y ago in europe
What does the gradual revolution model say?
It was not an event, but tools evolved in frica until 50 000 y ago beads appeared
What type of beads are found in Africa between 40 000 and 30 000 bp?
Ostrich eggshell beads
With what theory are the beads found most compatible?
Multiorigin model
What theory is contradicted by the beads found?
The human revolution model
What humans had the first european beads?
Augnacians
