ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Absolute Dating, Biochronology, Xiaochangliang
Document Summary
The oldest evidence we have of people outside of africa is dmanisi, in the republic of georgia. Since the 1930s, people have been excavating this site because it was a medieval monastery. In the early 1980s, they started to find great big bones of extinct animal species and a year later, they started finding stone tools. The skulls found in this site were quite small, and appeared to be perfect examples of h. ergaster, rather than h. erectus. An old man found as well, approximately 50 years he would have had gummy teeth, and relied on his group. The group would have had taken care of him. Turkana in africa (2. 0 million years ago) dmanisi in georgia (1. 8 million years ago) Nihewan basin in china (1. 6+ million years ago) java in south-east asia (1. 4 million years ago) and atapuera in europe (1. 4 million years ago) Along the solo river, there were some modern human skulls found (wajak)
