BIOL 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cannibalism, Sterkfontein, Australopithecus Afarensis
Document Summary
Taung child (a. africanus) first identified by raymond dart. Found with bone, teeth, and horn remains of other animals. Osteodontokeratic predatory habits of australopithecines involving manufacture and use of osseous implements. Carnivorous, cannibalistic predators who utilized bone and horn implements to hunt various animals, such as antelopes and primates, as well as other australopithecines. Raymond dart writing about taung found in caves hominin fossisl coming out of caves because they were living in the caves. Bone, tooth, horn remains fossils of hunters. Early hominins were most likely hunted, not hunters. Earliest evidence of hominin evolution in africa. Over time cranium filled in with limestone, over time pieces fragmented away . Mrs. ples endocast not the same thing as sitting down and looking at actual brain. Cranial capacity right in early homo range. Biped, not necessarily as efficient as genus homo. People who work in south africa see african fossils as ancestor to humans.
