ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Kamoya Kimeu, Homo Erectus, Turkana Boy

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Fukishima

Document Summary

1st hominin species to exist outside of africa an african origin an impressive longevity (1. 9 mya to 3000 years ago) Extensive geographical spread throughout old world (africa, middle east, asia) Zhoukoudian, china (600 400 kya) most significant erectus. Best collection of 600,000 300,000 yr old hominids ever found. Minimum 40 individuals adult male, female & subadults. Missing in 1933 when china tried to ship fossils before japanese occupation. 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. Sagittal keel a large reduction in sagittal crest, feels like a bump and hard to be seen. Teeth larger than modern human, but smaller than h. habilis. Dmanisi, georgia or erectus? (gabounia et. al. , 2002) Appears as early homo (may be an early variant of early homo)