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A spatially discrete area where archeological remains are found.




What is archaeology?


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The science and art of the human past as studied through material remains.




The Climate

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300-100 kya
much of Africa was colder and dryer




Mezmaiskaya Cave


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The location that has produced the most recent Neanderthal fossil, dated
to 39 kya +/- 1.1k




Lewis Binford (1931-2011)


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Argued for Processualism, archaeology should be a science.
Past societies were living and dynamic.
We only have a static archaeological record.
Proposed ethnoarchaeology.




Apidima Cave


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It shows earliest evidence of Homo Sapiens in Eurasia
It shows multiple dispersals of early modern humans out of Africa

,Hominin


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All members that split after chimpanzees,
7-10 mya




Homo ergaster


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1.8- 1.5 mya, inarguably human, disagreement whether its the earliest
erectus.




Excavation


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Systematic removal and recording of archeological deposits and remains in
context.




Homo neanderthalensis


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Biache-saint vaast, France
175 kya- thermoluminescence
Levallois technology

, represent a local evolution of humans
exclusively found in Europe, southwest asia, central asia




Ethnoarchaeology


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The study of how people use objects and space in the present to model
scenarios about how they might have used similar but different items in the
past.




Did Neanderthals have symbolic language


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Removal of feathers as evidence from bird bone taphonomy




Hoyo Negro, Mexico


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12.9 - 11.7 kya
Shows evidence of differences between Paleoamericans and Native
Americans, Probably resulted from in situ evolution rather than separate
ancestry
shows people must have crossed into Beringia already

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