archaeology of the mind

Question 1

How are humans distinguished from other life forms

Answer 1

by their ability to use symbols

Question 2

cannot study one mind of the past but

Answer 2

minds

Question 3

evidence

Answer 3

Stone tools, subsistence strategies, symbolic artefacts, symbolic features

Question 4

stone tools

Answer 4

• Chaine operatoires
• Stone tool production sequences become more diverse through time -knowledge transfer required not just initiation
• Stone tool assemblages become more diverse
• Reflects part of the way they were thinking
• Prime resource to reconstruct

Question 5

stone tool assemblages

Answer 5

bifacial and unifacial
become smaller

Question 6

subsistence strategies

Answer 6

People exploiting seasonal resources
- anticipated and accurately time the change of the season
- long term planning

Question 7

symbolic artefacts

Answer 7

Astragalus bones
- Artefact or ecofacts
- Amulets or talismans

Question 8

Symbolic features

Answer 8

Burials - indicate feeling and consideration for the dead

Question 9

tries to ….

Answer 9

understand what they were thinking of
put different parts of the puzzle together to get the bigger picture but the problem is that it is complete when we try and get as much as we can and many times part of the puzzle arent available