Lab Quiz

Heavy brow ridge, larger oxipital bun, reduced size of forehead, more space between molars

Shorter, higher cranium
reduction in relative size of face and teeth

France
24-28,000 bc
-thought to be Aurignacian, but actually Gravettian
-high forehead, small eyebrow ridges
-face reduced in size compared to Neanderthals, prominent chin
-not as muscular as Neanderthals

Blade tools, but core tools still present
-blade technology: one of most important tech. innovations made by early modern Homo sapiens (more efficient use of stone tool raw material)

Short, irregular flakes (Mousterian core)

Long, narrow flakes with parallel sides, carefully prepared striking platform

X2 as long as they are wide

For 'indirect percussion'
-greater control, increased quality and efficiency of blade production

Pointed bone flaker used to press small, thin flakes from edge of tool
-finishing techniques (finely balanced spears and arrowpoints)

45-35,000 BP
capacity for complex culture evolved before actual development
-European adaptation to extreme cold of late Pleistocene (big game hunting and fishing)
-clothing, eloborate shelters
-all tools made on blades or blade segments

-most common tool
-working edge opposite of platform
-used to prepare leather

Chisel tip, carving wood, bone, antlers

Backed knife, linked to Mousterian (?)

Large, finely made points or knives (France and Spain)
-may have been ceremonial (fragile and large)

Carved with knives, burins or ground using natural abrasives such as fine sand