ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Body Proportions, Mousterian, Tooth Wear
6 Dec 2016
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Butchering and skinning game, scraping hides, cutting plants, digging in the soil. Standardized, pre-determined form (pear-shaped) and high degree of symmetry. Probably took a long time to make and was used for months of years, we know that due to resharpening. 1. 2 mya - 490,000 y. a; homo erectus. Thousands of artifacts found at a nearby stone quarry. 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- *do not say that h. erectus was found in the new world it will be a question on the exam. Origins and dispersal of anatomically modern homo sapiens. Modern humans evolve and disperse throughout africa ~ 200,000 y. a. ~ 50,000 ya - one african population migrated to eurasia and europe. H. erectus disperses early from africa, ~ 1. 25 mya. Modern populations arose from ancient, local lineages.
