ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Floresiensis, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Homo Heidelbergensis

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: Ross Jamieson

Document Summary

Gradually it would lead to humans becoming the most successful animal in the world: 4 different kinds of human lived together. But now we are the only one: neanderthal were the smartest people in the world, turkana boy: the most famous homo erectus fossil. We are not an ape or a human: arica has been the engine of our evolution pumping out ancient human populated in. Developed in special ways: homo heidelbergensis: one the earliest population in europe. Floor deposits 10 meters thick of animal & hominin remains: mirko malek: he excavate the cave in 1970s, layer g: stratigraphic layers labeled a through m, top to bottom. Layer g 1 had 3 hominins thought to be late neanderthals. Layer g 3 had extensive remains of. Neanderthals: accelerator mass spectrometry (ams): more accurate & uses smaller samples. The collagen in the bone is the organic part to be dated: vindijia neandertals are some of the last neandertals in europe.