ARCL 140 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prognathism, Parietal Lobe, Sterkfontein

• School: UBC
• Department: Anthropological Archaeology
• Course: ARCL 140
• Professor: Heather Robertson

Document Summary

Vindija cave, croatia-60 + specimens, mousterian artifacts, modern features tabun cave. & kebara cave, israel, female skeleton, less robust features, partial male skeleton, most complete pelvis, first hyoid bone found, hyoid in the modern shape usually means complexity in language shanidar. Mousterian tools: awls, knives, scrapers and points - specialized for hunting, butchery, woodworking. Genome project headed by svante p bo at max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology in leipzig, germany, began in 2006, with aim of: 1. determining sequences of 3 billion base pairs that make up. Neandertal dna; 2. determining what contribution, if any, neandertals made to modern human variation; 3. providing catalogue of differences between human & neandertal genomes. The denisovan genome also suggests the young girl had brown hair, eyes, and skin. Neanderthals, denisovans, and modern humans are all descended from the ancient human homo heidelbergensis. Between 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, an ancestral group of h. heidelbergensis left africa and then split shortly after.