ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Swiss Army Knife, Lake Turkana, Acheulean
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Homo erectus ( ~ 1. 8 mya - ~40000 years ago: travels from africa all the way to europe and far eastern asia; the first species to leave, first discovered by eugene dubois. The man who found the missing link . He took his family to sumatra (not a lot of success) and moved to java (successful; near the trinil, java; the river; From trinil, they found the fossils of homo erectus. Bony growth exostosis; happens when the bone is tear. The skull was intermediate to the chimp and human: sangiran 1. 6 my, ngandong ~40000 years ago, davidson black involved in the discovery of homo erectus fossils at zhoukoudian. Perking man found in the reconstruction, zhoukodian cave, chine (~780000 ya) Thick cranial bone compared to a modern human. More sloping forehead (humans have more a vertical forehead) Superorbital torbus bar-like structure over the eyes (brow ridges) Nuchal torus barlike structure behind the head.
