ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olduvai Gorge, Homo Habilis, Richard Leakey
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Cranial anatomy early homo in comparison to australopithecines. Back teeth still quite large (but < australopithecines) Manuports: unaltered objects carried some distance before use. 2: requires a complex, abstract thought process. Large rock that you strike the cobble against or place the cobble on. New additions to diet: meat group sharing scavenging. Probably resulted from an adaptation to a new environment. 1st hominin species to exist outside of africa an african origin an impressive longevity. Best collection of 600,000 300,000 yr old hominids ever found. Minimum 40 individuals adult male, female & subadults. 1984 kamoya kimeu: wt 15000 (nariokotome boy) Larger brow ridges: temporal relationships inconsistencies in the chronological transition of morphological changes from h. habilis to h. ergaster to h. erectus. 780 1225 cc (1000 cc average: wide at base from behind. Teeth larger than modern human, but smaller than h. habilis. Homo georgicus or erectus? (gabounia et. al. , 2002)
