NATS 1540 Lecture 4: Homo antecessor
12 Mar 2019
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Homo antecessor (1. 2 mya) ( same / predecessor or pioneer ) Incomplete homo antecessor skull from gran dolina, spain. Eudald carbonell, juan luis arsuaga, and j. m. berm dez de castro. Until the recent discovery of hominin fossils dating to over 1. 2 mya in the atapuerca. Mountains of spain, the earliest known fossil material from the area was no more than. The 800 kya material was assigned the taxonomic designation of homo antecessor, or pioneer man, as the first hominins to have ranged into western. Since its discovery, researchers have speculated that homo antecessor was descended from a more derived form of h. ergaster that may have crossed the. Mediterranean sea from north africa during a period of lowered sea levels. Now that the geological clock has been pushed back 300 kya, it is thought that they may have traveled through the levant (i. e. the eastern mediterranean region).
