You're so cultured by Marwan Juma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj Comment on these photos with what you know about the significance of each cultural advance in hominin society. Why do you think each happened in the sequence it did. en-us 2018-10-12 00:33:55 UTC 2024-10-16 09:56:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Tools mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291994773 Oldowan - Homo habilis (2.6 million years BP – 1.7 million years BP)
  • Pebbles with flakes chipped off from only one side
Acheulean - Homo erectus ( 1.76–0.13 Mya) 
  • Bifacial
  • Tear-drop shaped
  • Hand axes
  • Fashioned on more than one side
Mousterian - Homo neanderthalensis (315,000 – 35,000-30,000 BP)
  • Made from flakes
  • Resharpened edges
  • Scrapers/spears
  • Attached to handles
Upper paleolithic - Homo sapien (40,000 years ago - 10,000 years ago)
  • Specialised
  • Made from stone/bone
  • Refined
  • Blades/spears/needles/fish hooks and more
]]> 2018-10-12 00:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291994773 Making tools mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291994967 Flakes were chipped off a rock core by another rock and fashioned]]> 2018-10-12 00:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291994967 Use of fire mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995185 - fire helped cook the hominin's food which allowed them more nutrients from the meat and killed off any disease or bacteria in the meat.
- the fire allowed the hominin's to stay up later after dark 
- provided warmth
- meat was no longer tough and large teeth and large jaw muscles were no longer required to tear or chew raw meat and so skull shape changed
- first controlled by homo erectus]]> 2018-10-12 00:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995185 Agriculture mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995673 The dawn of agriculture has helped humans survive and made food security more certain.
With the dawn of agriculture, villages and settlements started forming along with villages/communities.  There was a greater variety in food sources and more to eat.  Skull shape changed as the large jaw and jaw muscles were no longer required as often to chew tough meat.

But, according to Anthropologist, Dr. John J. Shea, that's not true at all. Dr. Shea told us: "The reduction of teeth and jaws due to cooking is a popular idea, but not evolutionarily plausible. If you relax selective pressure for massive jaws--say by cooking food--you get greater variability, not reduced robusticity. Jaw reduction probably had something to do with changes in respiration, maybe speech."  Therefore, as necessities like speech strengthened communities that utilized it and a smaller jaw and teeth became more abundant. ]]> 2018-10-12 00:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995673 Dispersal mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995685 Humans made their way out the Middle East and made permanent settlements in Mesopotamia.

During one or more of the Ice Ages, early man had access to other continents and spread throughout Europe. ]]> 2018-10-12 00:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995685 Building permanent settlements mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995688 building permanent settlements helped establish trading between neighbouring tribes or communities 
- allowed protection from other communities and wildlife
- allowed for the agriculture 
- Protection from weather and environment ]]> 2018-10-12 00:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995688 Art and spirituality mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995689 Drawings and paintings of pictures and symbols on caves is showing their use of abstract thinking, ways of communications, and story telling. Neanderthals seem to be the first hominis to start creating these drawings, showing the increase in understanding and communication.   

]]> 2018-10-12 00:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/291995689 Hunting and gathering mjuma https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/307583402 2018-11-25 23:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mjuma/rq3xjo1d5hrj/wish/307583402