ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Incisor, Mousterian, Bradost
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Early human fossils discovered on java indonesia. Simple core, and flake tools lee berger. "mauer jaw" large brain, occipital bun, oldowan toolw in asia rising star cave. Homo naledi occipital bun at the back of their skulls, they had a prominent bulge or projection. Mousterian tool industry techno-complex of flint lithic tools associated with meanderthals shanidar cave. Fossil discovered in la chapelle aux saints was an old man. Identify as a hairy gorilla assimilation model. Women and children hunted too - no division of labor. Lived to a fairly old age --> took care of each other. They date to 1. 75 million years ago and look very much like the earliest homo erectus from africa--i. e. , those that have been classified by some researchers as homo ergaster. This discovery lends credence to the 1. 8 and 1. 6 million year old dates for homo erectus from java and to an early rather than late. Homo erectus expansion out of africa. zhoukoudian cave.
