ANTH 3512 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lake Turkana, Australopithecus Afarensis, Olduvai Gorge
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Important hominin bearing sites: middle awash (ethiopia) Hadar, aramis, maka, knoso: lake turkana sites (kenya) Koobi fora, allia bay, kanapoi: omo group (kenya + ethiopia) Middle awash (ethiopia: aramis: ardipithecus ramidus and ard. kadabba, hadar: australopithecus afarensis. More than 250 specimens recovered (35+ individuals) Setting: woodland wetland open woodland: maka: australopithecus afarensis, konso: australopithecus boisei, homo erectus. Lake turkana (kenya: kanapoi + allia bay (east): a. anamnesis. Tibia recovered from kanapoi + radius from allia bay, jaws and teeth from both. Setting: open woodland + some grassland: koobi fora: a. afarensis, a. boisei. West lake turkana (kenya + ethiopia: omo: a. afarensis, a. boisei, a. athiopicus. Setting : wet woodland environment prior to 2. 5 mya transition to open woodland and grasslands between 2. 5-2 mya: oldest stone tools- 3. 3 mya. Unique hominin trackway made in wet ash. Environment semi-arid: olduvai: a. boisei, early homo. 1st excavated by louis leaky in 1931. Environment: semiarid with some marshland and possibly somewhat.
