ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Archaic Humans, Omo Kibish Formation, Liang Bua

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Keriann Mc Googan

Document Summary

Modern human morphology: small faces, protruding chins, rounded skull, less robust postcranial skeleton. Ethiopia: omo kibish, 195 kya, one individual modern-looking, one less so, earliest modern human found. Sahul 50 kya (includes new guinea and australia) Lake mungo: earliest finds so far; earliest australian homo sapiens lived there. 14000-9000 years ago: mtdna, fossils found show archaic traits; genetically more similar to native. Oase cave, romania 35 kya anatomically modern humans. Mladec in czech republic 31 kya: cranial remains (mandible and partial skull) of 3 robust but. After 28 kya, modern humans widely dispersed in central and western. Cro-magnon, france: associated with aurignacian tools, 8 anatomically modern human individuals found. Portugal: child skeleton found, possible hybridization in fossil record might indicate interbreeding between neandertals and modern humans limb proportions and robustness might indicate neandertal features. Might also be because it was a child skeleton found, so it is not yet fully developed.