ANTH 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Peking Man, Homo Ergaster, Homo Erectus
4 Oct 2020
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Homo erectus: pithecanthropus = pith (ape); anthropus (human) homo = human erectus = upright. Important localities: java, dmanisi, zhoukoutien, turkana area distribution: throughout africa, europe, mainland asia, indonesia. Nicknames: java man, peking man, turkana boy: temporal range: 1. 8 mya 250 kya (perhaps younger, morphological features, cranial capcity 800-1000cc, prominent supraorbital torus, projecting nose small teeth long, low skull. In the early 1920s, erectus-like remains were found near peking, china at site called: zhoukoudian, china, named sinanthropus pekinensis (chinese human from peking, 20+ crania and partial crania, and lots of postcrania, all lost duringwwii. Reaction to pithecanthropus erectus: dubois" finds were not as celebrated by other anatomists. Eventually, he backtracked on his statements and proclaimed that: h. erectus was a large gibbon, then, he went crazy and hid the fossils under his bed, lots more skeletal material has been found in indonesia. Java man. : african homo erectus/ homo ergaster.
