Ch. 6 -- Expanding Intellectual Horizons Flashcards
Aurignacian
Lithic tool technology associated with anatomically modern human beings in Europe about 40 kya
Includes long, narrow blade tools
Grave goods
Cultural materials placed into a grave, sometimes in a conscious attempt to provide the deceased with items it is believed are needed in the afterlife
Gravettian
Toolmaking tradition of the Upper Paleolithic, characterized by the production of small blades and denticulate knives
27000-21000 B.P.
Logistical collecting
A settlement-subsistence strategy that involves the movement of a group in a fixed seasonal round
Plan movements of settlements to coincide with the availability of food resources in their territory
Magdelanian
Late Paleolithic culture in Europe dating from 16000 to 11000 B.P.
Material culture included finely made barbed harpoons, carved decorative objects, and cave paintings
Megafauna
Very large animals
Mobility art
Art that is portable
Ex.: Venus figurines, animal carvings, geometrically incised bone & antler
Opportunistic foragers
Groups that follow a subsistence pattern in which they take advantage of whatever resources become available without much patterning or planning in advance
Parietal art
Art on the walls of a cave like the cave paintings of the Upper Paleolithic
Petroglyph
Designs etched into rock faces
Darker, weathered rock surface is removed, creating a design or pattern by exposing lighter-colored rock beneath
Settlement pattern
Location, size, function, & seasonality of the various communities or activity areas within a given cultural system
The pattern of land use
Solutrean
Stone-toolmaking tradition of the European Upper Paleolithic
21000-16000 B.P.
Bifaces are often exquisitely made, symmetrical, leaf-shaped projectile points
Spear-thrower (or atlatl)
A tool used to increase the range and accuracy of the hand-thrown spear
Venus figurine
Upper Paleolithic sculptures of females, often, but not always, with exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics
27-20 kya
W, C, & E Europe
