ANHB1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Archaic Humans, Cranial Vault, Neanderthal
5 Sep 2018
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May be more than 1 species of these. Diff to ergaster = reduced brow ridge (ancestral trait), higher cranial vault (more rounded) (derived trait). Earliest documented shelter =beach huts (350000 yrs ago). Timeline graph thing from the ppt. + distributionmap (look at but don"t need to. Sapiens = reduced brow ridges, increased cranial vault (doesn"t slope back as much). Sapiens have a protruding chin on the lower mandible. remember). Genetic evidence that these arise separately with early+low level of admixture early interactions with humans + neaderthals. Genes from these are still affecting diseases we get today (susceptibility). Became extinct from europe and sapiens moved in to europe. Lived in cold environments adaptations to this (robust bones, large muscles, 30% more weight than modern humans of the same heitght). Brow/supraorbital ridges + elongated skull, occipital bun. Large crnaila capacity (larger brains than modern humans w larger skull too. Vault slopes backward whle modern humans have a forehead.
