Week 5 Part 1 Flashcards
Technology (according to archaeology) is…
The production of artefacts through the employment of knowledge, skills, methods of modifying physical objects
What was the 1st technology developed? When?
Stone artefacts
- 3.4 mya
What was the 2nd technology developed? When?
Hearths
- 1.1 mya
What was the 3rd technology developed? When?
Oldest known halting and spears
- 500,000
What was the 4th technology developed? When?
Pigment use
- 300,000
What were the last technologies developed? When?
Oldest painted art
- 60k to 100k
Earliest heat treatment
- 75k
Oldest axes
- 60k to 70k
Oldest carved bone ornaments
- 30k to 50k
What is knapping
Fracturing a rock into a core and a flake
Why did knapping create mentor ship programs?
High level of skill, so required apprenticeship instead of experimentation
Who invented the three age system? What were the three ages?
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
Palaeolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
What 4 hominins used Oldowan technology?
- Australopithecus afarensis
- Australopithecus garhi
- Homo habilis
- Homo erectus
How is Acheulian technology different to the older version: Oldowan
Acheulian contains distinctive two-faces hand axes
How does archaeology describe how lithic technologies got better and more sophisticated
Competition between experts result in elaborate and novel forms
When did the Acheulian stasis start and finish?
Began 1.8 mya
Continued until 0.3 mya in some places
What is the term for the copying of behaviour that is more common rather than less so
Conformist transmission
What is the term for copying successful role models instead of what everyone else does?
Prestige bias
