ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Neanderthal, Radiocarbon Dating, Upper Paleolithic
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Found by mary leakey at olduvai gorge in tanzania. Homo habilis and homo erectus overlapped in time rather than being ancestor and descendant. Out of africa 1: homo erectus moves beyond africa to europe and. Permitted long-distance stalking and endurance during hunting. Hearths at various sites confirm fire was part of the human adaptive kit by this time. Fire provided protection against cave bears and tigers. Widened the rage of climates open to human. Encompasses the earliest members of our species. Out of africa 2: anatomically modern humans arose in. Brain size of archaic h. sapiens was within the modern human range of 1350 cm^3. A rounding out of the braincase was associated with the increased brain size. Establishes a time frame in relation to other strata or materials rather than absolute dates in numbers. The science that examines the ways in which earth sediments accumulate in layers known as strata. Age of something in and of itself.
