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    ANTH 3010 - 002: The Great Discoveries Dr. Jeffery Frost May 3rd 2015 COMPLEX COGNITIVE CONTROL REQIURED FOR LOWER PALEOLITHIC TOOL MAKING The lower Paleolithic era also known as the Early Stone Age lasted from about 2.6million years ago - 200,000 years ago. The lower Paleolithic began when the first stone tool was manufactured 2.7million years ago called the “Oldowan tool” by the hominin Homo habilis (2.5 million years ago – 1.7 million years ago). This era also saw the rise of other hominin ancestors

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    GED 210 Unit 1 Examination Answers Follow Below Link to Download Tutorial https://homeworklance.com/downloads/ged-210-unit-1-examination-answers/ For More Information Visit Our Website ( https://homeworklance.com/ ) Email us At: Support@homeworklance.com or lancehomework@gmail.com 1. Which of the following would not be considered a specialization within the discipline of physical anthropology? • human anatomy • paleopathology • primatology • phonology 1. The material products

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    Archaeolog Stone Tools

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    Archaeologists have discovered thousands of stone tools dating back 10,000 years or more in Redmond, Washington. An Unexpected Find The discovery was made during an archaeological survey undergone in preparation for a construction project that began in 2009. The project site, near Redmond Town Mall, was intended to restore the salmon habitat conditions of Bear Creek, a tributary to the Sammamish River, by rechanneling the stream in a way that improved its conditions for both fish and people. When

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    Calico Stone Tools Essay

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    known as Yermo (Patterson, 1987). This place is known for stone made structures whom individuals claimed were made by humans 200,000 years ago, instead of being created by nature (Patterson, 1987). What these findings suggest is that people lived in America earlier than what people had previously thought, due to artifact findings of manmade tools (Duvall & Venner, 1979). Furthermore, I will provide information on the Calico stone tools and why I believe they were created by nature, and then changed

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    Pueblo I-III Material

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    When Prof. Green wrote his conclusion in his March 1969 report, he proposed that there was evidence for Pueblo I-III periods and postulated that Basketmaker II & III materials should be found in the same area with more survey efforts. All the stone implements I catalogued and analyzed were given the provenience of “surface” (Green 1969, 1970). Huckell (1996) theorizes that in an archaic setting when the materials are all on the surface, or shallowly buried, that it is an indication that there were

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    Oldowan and Acheulean stone tools were the most common tools present during the Lower Palaeolithic period. These tools were the earliest evidence of cultural behaviour that is present among us Homo sapiens now. The Oldowan and Acheulean artefacts is an important breakthrough in early human prehistory. For the past two and a half million years, the ability to make and use tools is a skill that has allowed humankind to thrive by making increasingly more efficient use of the resources in the environment

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    they were able to make and use tools but it was discovered by Jane Goodall that Primates are able to make and use tools as well. Within the subject of primatology, we will be looking the different techniques used during primate toolmaking and some of the uses for the tools made by primates. We will also be looking at three different research studies focusing on mandrills, chimpanzees and capuchins which will give us a better understanding of how primates make tools. By studying this, we can learn

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    Tool Use and Behavior of Wild and Captive Capuchins Introduction The capuchin monkeys are known as one of, if not the most intelligent monkeys of all New World species. They reside naturally in the forests of southern Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America, but can be found in zoos and captivity around the globe. Capuchins regularly eat fruits, insects, and nuts, and spend the majority of their day foraging for food. Capuchins travel and live in groups, residing in the treetops and

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    regular close to our homes and used many techniques to control the population, such as killing an excess of the old and newborns and other methods of abortions. This was known as the Stone Age. To the farmers who controlled the world and adopted the idea of cities in the Neothetics, where the invention of ground and stone tools were more widespread. Pastoralism (the production of dairy) was also very well successful in this time . Farmers were most useful during times of war and when hunting game was sparse

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    archaeologists to prove, the recovered artifacts and faunal assemblage suggest a strong relationship between subsistence practices and changes in tool technology. Based upon the radiocarbon dates, the absolute date of the volcanic eruption at 3870 ± 40 B.P. as well as the recovered tool kits, I have distinguished between three separate prehistoric periods based upon tool technology: 1.

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