ECON 210 – INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY – UNIT ONE JON LEATHERMAN #73973 1
Unit One Writing Assignment.
2. Describe the specific changes in chipped stone tools that characterized the evolution
of technology from the Oldowan to the Acheulian, Mousterian, and Upper Paleolithic
periods.
Using the archeological record, archeologists have been able to identify key periods in
human evolution based on the technological advancement of the tools they used. The
identification of primitive tools and their changes over time are important, because they mark
the beginning of the genus Homo and evidence of cultural behavior.
