ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Homo Erectus, Homo Rudolfensis, Deinotherium

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Fossil evidence: 3 to 2. 5 mya: approx. A doomed line: robust australopithecines: a. aethiopicus, a. boisoi and a. robustus. Various taxonomic labels, lived between 3 1 mya. Small brains / large teeth good for chewing plant foods. Legs long and humanlike, arms long and apelike. Important bit bones of an antelope and other large animals found close to this hominin and they display cut marks from stone tools this was until last month the first evidence for ho(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)s e(cid:374)gagi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) (cid:271)ut(cid:272)he(cid:396)y. Even allowing for such a small sample size tim white goes so far as to claim that a. gahri might be the exclusive ancestor of the homo family tree. Had longer legs, shorter arms, more dexterous hands with a larger, opposed thumb. Obviously now we can be pretty sure these characters were making tools given the much earlier data). Further documented at east turkana with skull 1470 (by richard.