ANTH 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Endocast, Foramen Magnum, Body Plan
3 Sep 2013
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Anthropology week 6 lecture notes: modern human origins. Broad environmental factors only account for a small portion of variability in human behaviour and biology. Examples include temperature, snowfall, rainfall; they only account for a small portion of variability. Local level adaptations: by examining very specific local and regional context we can better understand adaptation, people adapt on a number of levels. People decide where to place their settlements for many different reasons: practical, political, economic. Settlement patterns: part of the analysis of human interactions with, and adaptations to, the natural and social environment, three levels. Activities and areas associated with a house. Very detailed picture of everyday life and activities. Relationships between and among different communities: spatial, temporal. Trade networks, political organization, social networks, subsistence strategies. Genus homo: homo habilis, homo ergaster. Homo erectus: tools, subsistence, fire, dispersal. Many different species appear between 2. 5-1. 8mya why: pleistocene (2. 5mya 12kya, climate change, glacial cycles became more severe ca.
