ANTHR219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kabwe, Stillbay, Omo Kibish Formation
20 Oct 2016
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New dating methods changed the relative order of. European sequence pretty straightforward, but once you get outside of europe, things get weirder. First sign of this was the re-dating of some of these famous sites in the middle east. A lot of them are right on the coast. Skhul and qafzeh sites with multiple human squeletons with intentional burials of individuals that are clearly modern. In europe, the paleolithic and later stages of human evolution are pretty well understood. People got into europe at some point in the past, eventually you have heidelbergensis or archaic sapiens, which evolved into neanderthals (short stocky bodies). (first humans we know about who are physically adapted to living in northern cold/dry environments. Now understand that the same common ancestor, heidelbergensis/ archaic sapiens is evolving directly into modern human. Burial, with most of squeleton of individual, first place where complete neanderthal pelvis was ever excavated, most of lower limbs are there.
