Expanding Intellectual Horizons

Question 0

4 New & improved stone tool technologies

Answer 0

• Aurignacian tradition (blades and burins)
• Gravettian tradition (points and denticulate knives)
• Solutrean tradtion (points & scrapers, laurel leaf points, needles & fish hook)
• Megdalenian tradition (barbed harpoons and microblades)

Question 1

Features of the Last Ice Age

Answer 1

• ice sheets covering much of the north
• annual temperature 10% cooler
• summer/winter contrasts greater
• heavy snowfall in Europe
• highly variable climate worldwide
• Pleistocene megafauna

Question 2

Greater intelligence evolved early hominin food to what?

Answer 2

• megafauna ( wooly mammoth, rhinoceros, reindeer, wild horse, elephant, wild cattle)
• small animals (fox, hare)
• sealife (fish, dolphins, seals, peneguins, mollusks)
• plants (seeds, berries, nuts, starchy roots)

Question 3

New and improved stone tool technologies during the Upper Paleolithic. 4 types, what were they

Answer 3

• Aurignacian tradition = blades, burins
• Gravettian tradition = points, denticulate knives
• Soultrean tradition = points & scrapers, laurel leaf point, needle & fish hook
• Megdalenian tradition = barbed harpoons, microblades

Question 4

Where was the earliest art?

Answer 4

Australia

• wharton hill: 36,000 BP
• panaramitee north: 43,000 BP

Africa
- Apollo 11 Cave
(Namibia): 30,000 BP