ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Brain Size, Encephalization Quotient, Microcephaly
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Accidental rafting and homo erectus in south east asia. However, there are almost no good evidence that people in australia from 40 thousand to 4 thousand years ago have had any contact with people from different areas (such as in asia or java). If there were boats involved, there would have been at least some contact between the people in australia and places across the wallace. There is no evidence that homo erectus in asia has evolved into modern humans. The homo erectus in asia disappeared completely. There is a super volcano called toba; it was 2,400 times the size of mount st. helens eruption in 1980 it spread debris to approximately 2,800 cubic kilometres. If the homo erectus had been around during this time, the eruption of toba could have been a plausible reason for the extinction of the homo erectus and the plantations in the area. Found in the liang bua cave in flores.
