ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Oh 5, Makapansgat, Sterkfontein
6 Aug 2020
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Sterkfontein, taung, and makapansgat (all limestone quarries) Raymond dart (taung child) and robert broom (mrs. ples) were discovered. Both fossils were from republic of south africa. Another a. africanus fossil of a foot, known as littlefoot , was discovered in. Louis leakey and mary leakey (parents of richard leakey and in-laws of meave leakey) He believed that the craddle of life was africa. Went to olduvai gorge every summer with mary (in northern tanzania) clear stratigraphy. Mary leakey finds a skull when louis is sick with malaria that was a major find. Molar teeth are humongous, 2 to 3 times as big as ours, means they had a huge grinding they called it zinjanthropus nutcracker man diet (small canines) Muscles of mastication: anterior temporalis, masseter, pterygoids. Olduvai, omo, peninj, koobi for a kenya, tanzania. Lived at the same time, in the same spot as homo erectus. Discovered by richard leakey and alan walker. The black skull flat face, flared cheekbones.
