ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Dentin, Hand Axe, Homo Sapiens

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nancy Barrickman

Document Summary

Neanderthals and up to modern humans - movie notes (oct. 31st, 2012) 50,00 years ago 4 main species living. All modern humans are decedents of a small breeding population of about 600 individuals. Neanderthals had brains bigger than ours, record of survival double that of others, and then they vanished. Erectus pioneered what it meant to be human, first ancestor to have bodies like ours, a hunter gatherer, social and most famous one is tarcana boy. Erectus started in africa, then moved out to asia and europe. Excalibur (hand axe) found in the pit of bones and that tells us the people that they threw in their were buried with something of theirs. The teeth can tell the age of a child because of dentine rings. Parental and temporal lobe were reduced in size from modern humans and thus this could have impacted their intelligence. Neanderthals hunted big gains and thus risk is involved, very few lived over 30.