ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Homo Ergaster, Kamoya Kimeu, Homo Erectus
12 Apr 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Zhoukoudian, china (600 400 kya) (homo erctus) 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) : significant because almost full body found. Asian specimens: bones thinner, smaller brow ridges, shorter & stockier, 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 (early homo is 600-800) (1000 cc average) increase in brain size: wide at base from behind. Sagittal keel (front from the back of the head where the crest exists it is much smaller tho/ feels like lump) Supraorbital torus (top of the eye where eyebrows are: nuchal torus (back to neck muscles joint, robust jaw. Teeth larger than modern human, but smaller than h. habilis. Back of the head is pentagon, widest near back bottom.
