ANT 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Willandra Lakes Region, Homo Floresiensis, Cro-Magnon
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Ant 202 fact sheet week 4 october 14, 2015. The emergence of modern humans (late homo or homo sapiens) The spread of anatomically modern homo sapiens sapiens. Structures made from animal bones and either sod or skins for covering. Dense accumulations of large animal bones: mammoths, woolly rhinos, and reindeer and small animals. Willandra lakes region: freshwater shell midden and human skeletal remains that date between 40 and. The skeletal remains indicate that these were amhss. b. Willandra lakes region, there is a site known as kow. Swamp excavated by a fellow named alan thorne in the early 1970s. Thorne recovered remains of 22 individuals that date between 13,000 and 10,000 b. p The remains, especially the skulls show some non. Amhs traits including: i ii iii iv big brow ridges, big faces, long low skulls receding foreheads. D"uktai cave excavated by a russian archaeologist named yuri mochanov. The cave dates at a minimum to 14,000 b. p.