Güncel Çalışmalar ile Paleolitik Dönemde İnsan İzleri
Özet
Antropoloji dünyanın en hızlı değişen içeriğine sahip bilim dallarından birisi konumundadır. Yaklaşık 2,8 milyon yıllık geçmişe sahip insanlığın çok küçük bir kısmı yazı ile net kanıtlar ile tanımlanabilmektedir. Bu da insanlık tarihinin binde ikisi gibi çok küçük bir kısmı hakkında net bilgilere sahip olduğumuz anlamına gelmektedir. Geri kalan kısım ise fosil ve arkeolojik kayıtlarda elde edilen bilgilerin yorumlanması ile anlaşılmaya çalışmaktadır. Son yıllarda dünya genelinde tarih öncesi döneme ait kazı sayısının hızla artmasında, teknolojik gelişmeler de eklendiğinde, insanın tarih öncesi serüvenini aydınlatılmasında çok fazla bilgi ortaya konulmakta, eski bilgilerimiz ise güncellenmektedir. Bu da insanı tanıma sürecimizde yeni bilgilere ulaşmamızı sağlamaktadır. Bu bölümde Paleolitik dönemde yaşamış insan türlerine ait son yıllarda yapılmış önemli çalışmaların bir özeti sunulmakta ve böylece insanlık tarihimizin çok büyük bir kısmını kaplayan Paleolitik dönem insanlarının daha iyi anlaşılması amaçlanmaktadır.
Anthropology is one of the disciplines with the fastest changing content in the world. A very small part of humanity, which has a history of approximately 2.8 million years, can be defined with clear evidence in writing. This means that we have clear information about a very small part of human history, such as two thousandths. The rest of it is being understood through the interpretation of information obtained from fossils and archaeological records. In recent years, with the rapid increase in the number of prehistoric excavations around the world and technological developments, a lot of information is being revealed in the elucidation of the prehistoric adventure of human beings, and our old information is being updated. This allows us to reach new information in our process of getting to know human beings. In this chapter, we present a summary of the important studies conducted in recent years on Paleolithic human species and thus aim to better understand the Paleolithic people, who occupy a very large part of our human history.
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