ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mesoamerican Chronology, Brain Size, Spy Cave
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Recent finds in africa indicated the presence of homo sapiens 160,000 (hero, ethiopia). Completely modern humans (homo sapiens) date to about 50,000. Characterized by a domed skull, a chin, small eyebrows and brow ridges and a puny skeleton. Chapter focuses on transition from homo erectus to modern humans. The transition form homo erectus to homo sapiens. Disagreement over how to classify some fossils from about 500,000 to 200,000 y. a that have a mix of homo sapiens and homo erectus traits. A particular find may be called homo erectus by some or archaic homo sapiens by others. Some see much continuity among the variation in fossil forms and believe they could be lumped together. Re(cid:272)e(cid:374)tly it has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) suggested that (cid:862)tra(cid:374)sitio(cid:374)al(cid:863) fossils share (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) traits a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ay represe(cid:374)t a separate spe(cid:272)ies (cid:862)homo heidelbergensis(cid:863) (fro(cid:373) the type spe(cid:272)i(cid:373)e(cid:374) fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) Mauer, new heidelberg, germany in the early 1900s) Includes finds from bodo, hopfield, elandsfontein, etc. in africa, petralona, arago,
