ARCA2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Solo Man, Lake Mungo Remains, Zygomatic Bone
30 Jul 2018
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Homo erectus: has modern thigh bone allowing them to walk upright. From indonesia: most robust- big and chunky. Sangiran 17: most complete homo erectus cranium from java, earliest 1. 3 mya, with most probably dating to between 500,000 and 800,000 years bp. Later indonesian homo erectus: crania display more progressive morphological features: Increased cranial capacity: relatively higher and broader crania, more "filled-out" frontal with reduced brow ridge size, a late middle pleistocene or early late pleistocene age for the sambungmachen and. Ngandong hominins is a reasonable estimate- 250,000 years bp. From at least 70,000 bp modern humans left africa and spread across the world including. Sahul (the southern arc route to southeast asia and australia) Lake mungo 1: oldest cremation in the world, a fragmentary female skeleton that was cremated and then the bones were smashed, gathered together and deposited in a shallow depression/grave, dates to 42,000 bp, very modern skull.
