ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Homo Erectus, Atapuerca Mountains, Homo Heidelbergensis

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Most of the hominins lived during the pleistocene epoch, a unit of geological time that is often called the ice age. Middle pleistocene stage began 780,000 ya and ended 125,000 ya. Neandertals lived well into the late pleistocene (125,000 10,000 ya) Middle palaeolithic began about 200,000 ya and ended around 40,000 30,000 ya. The pleistocene: marked by continental glaciations that had global climate effects. Dispersal of middle pleistocene hominins: like their homo erects predecessors, later hominins were widely distributed in the old. World (africa, asia, and europe: europe became more permanently and densely occupied as middle pleistocene hominins have been discovered widely from england, france, spain, germany, italy, Middle pleistocene hominins: terminology: 780,000 ya, succeeded homo erectus. Characteristics: large face, brows are projected, forehead is low, cranial vault is still thick: compared to homo erectus, premodern humans possessed. Found in sites called kabwe (broken hill) in zambia.

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