CLCV 1008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Equus Lambei, Homo Erectus, Beringia
18 Oct 2014
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Afar rift in east africa: the location of lucy" and ardi". Lucy lived about 3. 2 to 3. 18 million years ago. Ardi (ardipithecus ramidus) was found in the same area in 1994. Ardi was bipedal, but would have used all four limbs while climbing trees and walking on the open grasslands. By 1. 6 million years ago, homo erectus had evolved. Recent discoveries are pushing back the dates when anthropologists think early humans colonized the world. Beringia land bridge across which early humans crossed into north america. Beringia emerged from under the sea during the last ice age. The yukon horse is one of the many animals that inhabited beringia during the last ice age. There were two groups of people who traveled to the americas: one group walked along an ice-free corridor and the other took animal-skin boats and sailed along the pacific coast. By 10,000 bc, most of the landmasses of the world were populated.
