Week 5

Question 1

Lower paleolithic

Answer 1

-Stone tools were created
Oldowan( Homo Habilis)
Acheulean (Homo erectus)

Homo erectus
-Fire
-Base camps
-Hunting

Question 2

Middle paleolithic

Answer 2

• Archaic Homo sapiens & Neandertals
• Advances in stone tool (lithic) technology
• Evidence of finely crafted spears
• Deliberate burials and some suggestions of art and jewelry

Question 3

Upper paleolithic

Answer 3

• Undisputed evidence of deliberate human burials and art
• Continued advancement in technology; the invention of the atlatl (spearthrower) in Europe, which is used to throw an atlatl dart

Question 4

Lomekwi

Answer 4

Kenya 3.3 million years ago
Oldowan stone tools
no hominin fossils
-significant for its potential to push back the timeline of early tool use in human evolution.

Question 5

Nyayanga

Answer 5

3.0-2.6 mya
Oldowan tools at Nyayanga used to butcher?
* Hippos!
* Also pounding tubers & fruits
* Paranthropus molar found beneath
hippos
* The evidence fills in the gap for what was found at Lomekwi