ANTH 1032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Archaic Humans, Homo Antecessor, Homo Erectus
11 Mar 2014
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Size in the bones of the skull are getting smaller. Increase in brain size (average of 1283cm3) Widest part of brain case shifted to parietal regions. Shifting closer to the front of the skull. Rear of cranial vault becomes more vertical. Less robust than h. erectus; more robust than modern homo. Associated with both acheulean-type technology and later lithic industries. Broken hill (kabwe), africa (600,000 125,000 ya) Mixture of older & more recent traits: supraorbital torus (brow ridge, low cranial vault, thinner cranial bones, brain size 1300 cc. First found in neander valley in germany 1856. The first discoveries were not typical neandertals" they were all distinct in one way or another. 50-yr old male: no teeth cared for, had spinal arthritis (= stooped posture) M. boule emphasized differences compared to modern humans. Early interpretations influenced ideas about neandertals for some time: fossils were deformed or aberrant. Cave man idea that was popular until the 1970s.
