ANTHR219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gregory Rift, Olduvai Gorge, Homo Erectus
1 Oct 2016
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You can tell the age of the skeleton by the eruption of the teeth and the limb bones (if still young when you dies, the cartilage will dissolve, so you find shaft and knobby ends separated) Important because it shows that you don"t just have robust form and early homo, there"s a third fossil hominin in south africa in this time range. Malapa near other sites in the cradle of humankind (found in underground limestone cave) Two partial skeletons- 1 adult, 1 juvenile (10-13 years of age by modern terms). First fossil human remains from south africa in that critical time period (that were not homo, they were something else. ) They had very small brain (characteristics of australopitheses) New species name (sediba) because much younger than a. africanus, or other kinds of remains from south africa. To find really old stuff, you need layers of rock/ layers of old land surface exposed at or near the surface.
