ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Shanidar Cave, Stone Tool, Kebara Cave
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Bro(cid:272)a"s area: o(cid:374)e of the two la(cid:374)guage areas of the (cid:271)rai(cid:374), alo(cid:374)g with wer(cid:374)i(cid:272)ke"s area. Expanded into a cap in humans, leaves a depression on the inside of the skull found in the nariokotome boy, but also in some chimps. Certai(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:272)atio(cid:374) that h. ere(cid:272)tus had key (cid:272)o(cid:373)po(cid:374)e(cid:374)ts (bro(cid:272)a"s, but la(cid:272)ked other. Evidence appears to indicate neanderthals had language forms simpler than key components (size of neural foramen), and so most likely did not have language anatomically modern humans (base of cranium, hyoid) Sampling of sediments from the cave wall for evidence of ash and burned bone. Stems and grasses, no big pieces of charcoal. Horse scapula with wound caused by a spear. Used to help haft a stone tool on a handle. Fragment of a spear point in a vertebra of a wild donkey. Earliest evidence of special treatment of the dead in archaic homo sapiens. Homo heidelbergensis ~500,000 ya - ~400,000 ya; atapuerca, spain.
