ANT-1420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homo Heidelbergensis, Rising Star Cave, Homo Naledi
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Part 2 of course: human past human diaspora the spread of humans, the dispersal. Pleistoce(cid:374)e epoch (cid:862)ice age(cid:863) 2,588,00-11,700mya: interstadials warm up periods. First species in fossil record was homo habilis 2. 8 1. 9mya: 2. 5(cid:373)ya (cid:862)oldowa(cid:374) tools(cid:863) fou(cid:374)d, not totally verified, if habilis but tools found on same site with them. Rising star cave: africa, previously unknown species fossils located, homo naledi, their hands, feet, and full body found (4-5 people) Homo erectus: 1. 9 50,000?mya, evolved in africa, expanded all the way into indonesia, was able to travel off africa, due to low sea levels from ice age glaciers, dmansi, georgia 1. 85 mya. Debatable if they could maker fire but likely. Just a pit of dead bodies: zhoukodian, china 750,000bp, boxgrove,england 500,000bp, elephant tibia bilzingseben, germany. Homo floriensis: genetically isolated on indonesian islands, evolved from h erectus, 100,00 13,000, 3ft tall short island people, bc they could survive on less food, adapted and evolved.
