ANTA01H3 Lecture 7: ANTA01 Lecture 7.docx
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~1. 8 mya - ~27,000 (?) years ago y travels from africa all the way to europe and far eastern asia y still fairly long way from modern humans, although they were pretty developed as well. In between homo erectus and homo sapiens, intermediate species. Thick cranial bone y sagittal keel y sloping forehad y supraorbital torus y nuchal torus. Homo heidelbergensis will have a mix of these traits and more modern traits. y they extend the full range that the homo erectus expanded. Homo erectus didn t make it till western europe until very late, or whether they even made it to europe. Their distribution is as far as you can get by walking over the whole world. Bodo y arachia homo sapiens specimen from east africa ~600, 000 years ago y has slight keel, massive supraorbital ridges, low cranial vault with receding forehad y y evidence of defleshing from toolmarks on the zygomatic bone.
