#1326 Christian Tryon: The Evolution of Homo Sapiens, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Christian Trigen. He is professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut. And today we're going to talk about the middle to later stone age transition and a little bit uh and some topics about the evolution of our species, Homo sapiens. So, Doctor Trian, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Uh thank you so much for having me. So first of all, uh to get into the first topic of the middle to leader stone age transition, I guess it's better for people to first learn what is the middle and what is the leader stone age. So tell tell us about that.

What are we talking about? Right. Um Uh these these are words that go back to really the nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, sort of the beginning of archaeologists working in Africa. Trying to make sense of all the stuff they were finding, all the sort of artifacts, you know, that were accumulating in museums. And they began by sort of

grouping them into things that looked similar, right? Things that sort of looked um like one another. And they made estimates. Um these look sort of technologically simple, these look complicated, and they made them into sort of earlier. middle and later Stone Age. And later they found out that those actually had stratigraphic Meaning that is they found the earlier ones below the middle ones. And the later ones above on top. So they they knew they had sort of a basic uh ordering

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