Anthropology 1026F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Archaic Humans, Homo Antecessor, Homo Erectus
19 Mar 2015
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Middle pleistocene, premodern homo, and the neandertals: big brains, big faces . More recent discoveries like the turkana boy discovered in kenya in the mid- 1980s dated to 1. 6 mya have led some paleoanthropologists to argue that african and. Asian h. erectus should be placed into two different species, with african specimens placed in the species h. ergaster. This taxonomic splitting is argued on the basis of cranial differences. Where such a split is made, h. ergaster is generally positioned as ascestral to h. sapiens while h. erectus is seen as an extinct relative (not directly ancestral to anatomically modern humans) Archaic homo sapiens, homo heidelbergensis: big brains, big faces. Fossils date from 700-130 kya are not considered to still represent homo erectus. Fossils from this time still retain some h. erectus like features (e. g. large brow ridges, sloping foreheads and relatively flat crania, and large prognathic faces.
