ARCH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Klasies River Caves, Blombos Cave, Les Eyzies-De-Tayac-Sireuil
10 Sep 2018
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Early modern homo sapiens sites in africa: omo, ethiopia - 195,000 ya first anatomically modern human found using argon/argon dating methd, herto, ethiopia - 160,000 ya found a skull with high forehead and small brow ridge. Found tools and butchered animals as well: klasies river mouth, south africa - 120,000 ya. chin, blombos cave, south africa - 77,000 ya incised ochre, border cave, south africa - 70,000-80,000 ya. Early modern homo sapiens sites in the middle east: qafzeh/sk hl, israel found oldest human outside of africa, dates to about 120,000 years ago. Found tools and fossils of this age showing that humans were present in this area. The levantine corridor is the route that modern humans took to leave africa and go to. Neandertals also took this route during migration as well (60-50 000 years old) Early anatomically modern humans in europe are often referred to as cro-magnon rock shelter anatomically modern humans. (indirect percussion and pressure flaking used)
