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Neanderthalisis
:What happened?
- Lived in Europe 200 kya
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Their behaviors become
more advanced than
"just" survival.
- burying the dead
- decoration
- caring for the weak
- nurturing the young
- abstract reasoning
- symbolic reasoning
- Did Neaderthal's have language?
- Did Neaderthal's leave burial objects?
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Range
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Physical
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- short stocky
- big brain
- short limbs
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adaptation to cold
- short, thick, loses heat less often
- wide noses
- Hiyod Bone
- Hypoglossal Canal
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Cultural
- successful big game hunters
- heavy injuries; no projectiles here
- lived in caves and rock-shelters
- hearths and controlled fire
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mousterian tool tradition
- prepared core
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Wild Horses
- Wooly Rhinocerous
- They don't really change at all over time
- Only near the very end did they "innovate"
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History
- Marcel found Neaderthals in Germany and France
- Marcel inductively reasoned from
a old arthritic skeleton. Neaderthals.
- 1856
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What happened?
- humans eliminated them from survival
- humans out-competed
- humans and neaderthals bred together
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Modern Humans
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Range
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Physical
- less sturdy body
- wide forehead
- no occipital bone
- sits below the brain
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Cultural
- human made structure
- same tools as mousterians
- over time, human's move into upper paleolithic tools
- small sharp blades and edges
- head treatment
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marine resource exploitation
- first whalers
- bone tools
- cave art
- sculpture
- necklaces
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definite symbolic activity
- altars
- cave bear skull adornment
- ritualised burial
- phases of the moon? recording phases of the moon?
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It bears repeating
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40 to 50 kya, upper paleolithic
tools are spread far and wide.
Explosion of blade & scraping
technology
- fish hooks
- obsidian
- ivory
- awls
- decoration of tools