ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Homo Erectus, Chris Stringer, Olorgesailie
29 Nov 2016
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When and where did the first humans appear (con"t) Thousands of artifacts found at a nearby stone quarry: quarry is place where they extract raw materials used to create tools. 990,000 year old elephant butchery site; also pigs, hippos and antelope. 400,000 90 giant baboons (about 140 lbs each) slaughtered evidence for. Hunting clubbing: baboons were a lot more aggressive, skull fractures caused death of baboons, hunting animals for food. Phytoliths silica particles in the skin (epidermis) of plants. None found in the new world (north, south, central america) Origins and dispersal of anatomically modern homo sapiens. Many genetic testings were done to figure out where humans came from. Chris stringer argues that anatomically modern humans evolve in africa from a group of homo erectus species living in africa: modern humans evolve and disperse throughout africa ~200,000 ya. ~50,000 ya one african population migrated to eurasia and europe: would"ve replaced global populations. Replaced local populations (no gene flow: no sex*
