ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Davidson Black, Zhoukoudian, Peking Man
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Distinctive artifacts associated with homo erectus are the. The acheulean tools are believed to represent a higher order of thinking than was necessary for making earlier tools. Acheulean hand axes found in africa and europe, but not in. Movius line: a theoretical boundary separating, geographically, the haves from the have nots . Eugene dubois and the discovery of homo erectus. A skullcap was found along solo river on the island of java. Productive area for homo erectus fossil specimens. Brains larger than usual for homo erectus. Davidson black presented four different forms of evidence from dragon bone hill that for him demonstrated that. Proposed that peking man was able to keep a fire going but no start a fire. The four forms of evidence that black cited were: carbon deposits, ash accumulations in presumed hearths (small controlled fire sites, burned bone, fire-cracked stone.